What budget would be needed today to build the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben or the Tower of Pisa? This is the funny question that a site for renting houses between individuals has been asked.
Haven't you ever wondered how long it took to build the Gizeh pyramids? How much money was needed to see how to raise it Christ Redeemer Rio? Or what ways would we use today to build the Eiffel Tower?
Thanks to a infographic created by HomeAdvisor, we found answers to all these questions.
In this infographic, we discover an estimate of the costs of building the symbols of the world's largest cities. An estimate made thanks to materials prices in 2015 and the price of the current workforce. According to this infographic we learn, for example, that the cost of the Statue of Liberty would be much less important than at the time. A considerably lower sum thanks, in particular, to the accessibility of materials but also to the advancement of technology.
It is also learned that it would take nearly $3 million of white marble to build a new Tower of Pisa or it would take more than $42 million to pay the 600 workers needed to build the Gizeh pyramids!
Astronomical sums that ultimately represent perfectly the market and symbolic value of these historical monuments in our current society! Take a look at the infographic and discover how much would cost the construction of the most famous historical monuments today! She'll dissuade you, probably, from building a replica in your garden, unless you're a millionaire...
Main photo credit: Flickr – Bruno Girin
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