A little-known Brazilian farming town with sugar cane wealth is set to upstage Rio de Janeiro by erecting a statue of Christ that will eclipse its famous equivalent atop Rio's Corcovado mountain.The Christ statue in Sertaozinho, northwest of Sao Paulo city, will be 187 feet tall, nearly 60 feet taller than its rival in Rio.
"Far from a pretense of grandeur, we're thinking about visibility," said Nerio Costa, mayor of the town 206 miles from Sao Paulo which hopes to inaugurate the statue at Easter.
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