Here Are 14 of China’s Finest World Monument Replicas
Here Are 14 of China’s Finest World Monument Replicas
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Laborers work on scaffolding near a full-scale replica of the Sphinx at an unfinished movie and animation theme park in Chuzhou, Anhui province.China Daily/Reuters
A Chinese statue of an oil bubble in Karamay, Xinjiang province caused a stir recently for bearing an uncanny resemblance to the reflective, bean-shaped Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago by Anish Kapoor.
But the 2006 artwork is far from the only iconic monument knocked off by Chinese developers. The country can boast more replicas of famous world monuments than Las Vegas, allowing residents to feel like world travelers without ever setting foot outside the nation’s borders.
See photos of the jewels of the country’s ‘duplitecture’ above.
Laborers work on scaffolding near a full-scale replica of the Sphinx at an unfinished movie and animation theme park in Chuzhou, Anhui province.China Daily/ReutersA Chinese worker rides past statues modeled on the famous Easter Island "Moai" in the Central Business District of Beijing.Mark Ralston—AFP/Getty ImagesTwo boys play-fight with swords in front of the mini replica of the United States Capitol in Beijing World Park.AFP/Getty ImagesVisitors walk past a copy of Mount Rushmore at a park in Chongqing.Mark Ralston—AFP/Getty ImagesA man holds up a water bottle to mimic a replica of the Statue of Liberty near replicas of the New York skyline at the World Park in Beijing.Feng Li—Getty ImagesWorkers build pavement outside a replica of the Roman Colosseum at Fisherman's Wharf in Macau.Paul Yeung—ReutersChinese workers walk past a 1:4 scale mini leaning tower of Pisa in Shanghai.ReutersPedestrians walk past a half-sized replica of the Eiffel Tower at Tianducheng, a small Chinese community built to imitate Paris, in Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province.APChinese security personnel wait for guests at a mansion on the edge of Beijing modeled after the baroque 17th century Chateau de Maisons-Laffitte in France.AFP/Getty ImagesA motorcyclist rides past a 10-metre-high miniature replica of the Arc de Triomphe monument in Paris, in Jiangyan, Jiangsu province.ReutersA replica of Stonehenge stands in a park beside a housing project in Hefei, Anhui province.AFP/Getty ImagesA woman poses for a selfie in front of a miniature replica of London's Houses of Parliament, at a theme park called "Window Of The World" in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.Alex Lee—ReutersA view of the cloned London Bridge in Suzhou, Jiangsu province.APVisitors to Beijing's World Park sit in front of a replica of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge.David Gray—Reuters
