Though considering the history of the Portuguese Empire (inc. the Royal Family fucking off to Brazil to avoid riots at home, iirc), perhaps that is… Appropriate, somehow.
Depending on how specific you want to be, "stuff" coming back from the colonies is the point. Even ideas. Like, there wasn't much of an appetite for tobacco before the colonies. Europeans picked that habit right up.
I would probably consider the one in Brazil more iconic, personally.
Yeah, I'd say Christo Redemptor is probably more iconic, but the statues are similar.
Oh, wait, so that wasn't the statue in question? Goddamn, I'm an idiot.
This is why I don't make comments on the internet for the first 2 hours after waking up.
So the Lisbon one came after the one in Rio..?
Historically, that is… Ironic.
Though considering the history of the Portuguese Empire (inc. the Royal Family fucking off to Brazil to avoid riots at home, iirc), perhaps that is… Appropriate, somehow.
Depending on how specific you want to be, "stuff" coming back from the colonies is the point. Even ideas. Like, there wasn't much of an appetite for tobacco before the colonies. Europeans picked that habit right up.