Fodor's Expert Review Cristo de Chiapas
Tuxtla Gutierrez
A 62-meter (203-foot) stainless-steel cross with an embedded silhouette of a Christ figure looms over Tuxtla from a hill in the city's southern suburbs. Its rotating illumination of colors is visible from the entire city on clear nights. The structure was modeled after Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue, but this one is more abstract.
