Step 1 : Introduction to the question "The Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro cost approximately how much to build? "
During the opening ceremony, the statue was to be lit by a battery of floodlights turned on remotely by Italian shortwave radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi, stationed 5,700 miles (9,200 km) away in Rome but because of bad weather, the lights were activated on-site.
