{"id":51897,"date":"2023-06-03T23:06:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T21:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=51897"},"modified":"2023-06-06T06:13:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T04:13:30","slug":"a-comparison-of-the-tallest-statues-in-the-world-the-tallest-of-all-is-in-gujarat-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/03\/a-comparison-of-the-tallest-statues-in-the-world-the-tallest-of-all-is-in-gujarat-india\/","title":{"rendered":"A comparison of the tallest statues in the world: the tallest of all is in Gujarat, India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Antiquity, humanity has raised large statues to represent figures that peoples consider important.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/04\/the-christ-the-redeemer-of-corcovado-in-some-impressive-birds-eye-views\/\">The Christ the Redeemer of Corcovado in some impressive bird's-eye views<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/05\/29\/the-sober-beacon-of-the-dead-of-monteferro-history-of-the-monument-to-the-universal-navy\/\">The sober 'Beacon of the Dead' of Monteferro: history of the Monument to the Universal Navy<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Among the largest statues in the world, <strong>the most frequent are those that represent religious figures<\/strong>, such as Christ, the Virgin Mary or Buddha, but there are also <strong>huge statues that represent the Homeland<\/strong> (as in Russia and Ukraine) <strong>and Liberty<\/strong>, which gives its name to the most famous statue in the world, the one located in New York.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@globaldata1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Global Data<\/a> has published <strong>an interesting video comparing the tallest statues in the world<\/strong>. Curiously, the largest of all is not remotely the most famous, as you can see at the end:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tallest Statue Without Base Size Comparison (60+ statues) | 3d Animation Comparison\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sSo7BvyPryA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The largest statue in the world is the so-called Statue of Unity<\/strong> and is located in Gujarat, in western India. Its construction began in 2013 and was completed in 2018. <strong>It cost about 340 million dollars and is 182 meters high<\/strong>, plus another 58 meters from its base. It was built with steel, roughage and reinforced concrete, and <strong>represents the politician Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1875-1950) <\/strong>, India's first deputy prime minister after its independence, a highly respected man in that country. The photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/es\/fotos\/JMFnERVEfBM\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prado<\/a> that heads this entry shows the feet of that huge statue, here you can see it complete:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52948510270_9940cb9e32_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/es\/fotos\/JMFnERVEfBM\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prado \/ Unsplash<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Antiquity, humanity has raised large statues to represent figures that peoples consider important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,16887],"tags":[19390,1506,19391,19392],"class_list":["post-51897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-monuments","tag-guyarat","tag-india","tag-sardar-vallabhbhai-patel","tag-statue-of-unity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}