World’s highest sandcastle unveiled in Germany

BERLIN – The world’s highest sandcastle is now standing 16.68 meters (54.72 feet) tall in the western German city of Duisburg.

A German travel operator organized the construction of the mammoth sandcastle, bringing in 3,500 tons of sand over the past 3 ½ weeks to the site at a former steelworks in the inland city.

19 sculptors spent more than three weeks working on the artwork by using almost 4,000 metric tonnes of sand.It also includes a sandy replica of the Great Sphinx of Giza, Venice’s Rialto Bridge Athens’ Acropolis, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The castle will officially be announce on 23rd September,the site has been visited by 180,000 people.

News agency dpa reported that Jack Brockbank, a representative of Guinness World Records, certified the record on Friday. It takes the title from a 14.84-meter (48.69-foot) sandcastle built early this year in India.