Virgin of the Immaculate Conception
Record: 25 m
Statue of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception
This work serves as a viewpoint, you can enter your interior from the Statue of the Immaculate Virgin in Stone and climb up to the head by a spiral staircase that runs through it inside to be able to observe the Blue Valley and part of the province From Jauja, for the east the massif of the Huaytapallana mountain range, in the west part of the province of Chupaca and the province of Huancayo. Undoubtedly a great work that can visit it in Concepción, located just 25 minutes from the city of Huancayo, you can upload walking or also by car.
The Virgin was inaugurated on December 7, 2006. It is built on the top of the 1km Stone Stone Hill of the Plaza de Concepción and whose top is at 3375MSNM. To get there you can upload by car or walk along a path called "path of integration" composed of a cobblestone and staircases of 550m long and that has 14 drums dedicated each to a district of Concepción. On the way, representative samples of the flora of Concepción province have been planted. The Statue of the Immaculate Stone Virgin has a height of 25.40 m (statue 20.40 m pedestal 5 m), has 80 tm weight, columns, internal beams 160 Tm approx. 3 TM of 1/2 and 3/8 and six thousand cement construction fierros were used. Its construction took eight months, 26 men worked at workshop and 18 on site, with a total of 70,000 HRS work man. It is of armed concrete. The modeling was carried out between the months of April and August of the year 2006. The assembly, assembly and sealing of plates was carried out between the months of July and November. 747 plates were built. The smallest of 0.45 m per 1.45 m with a weight of 250 kg and the largest of 1 M for 2 m (feet) with a weight of 900 kg. It was joined and soldiers as if they were pieces of a gigantic puzzle and then be ressed and polished. At the foot of the Virgin is an altar for the realization of the Holy Office in the same way there are representative gardens and allegories of the economic activities of the province. Likewise, on the way there is a cobblestone staircase with 14 breaks. In addition, in the upper part there is an esplanade with allegories to the economic activity of Concepción (before and now), Basket of breads, porongo and a basket with trout.
It is the statue of the highest immaculate Virgin in Peru. With 25.4 m. Height plus the crown that has 5 m. tall and was placed in September 2012.
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