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On the way to Teresopolis (a small city in the highlands about 90 kilometers far from Rio de Janeiro District) you can easily spot God's Finger Peak (1.651 meters high)...

guess this is the closest you can get from God... at least before you die...

Aditional info (from Wikipedia):

Teresópolis (informally known as Terê) is a municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, near Petrópolis, in the Rio de Janeiro highlands region (Região Serrana, in Portuguese).

Population: 148,965 (2005) [1]
Municipal area: 772.4 square km (298.2 square miles)
Altitude: 871 meters (2857 feet) above mean sea level
Average temperature: 19.3ºC (annual), 22.8ºC (February), 15.9ºC (July)

Teresópolis began as a quilombo founded by Maroons and indigenous peoples. In 1818, Englishman George March (1781–1845) established a farm there, and when he died in the middle of the 19th century, the locals divided the farm into several shares, some of which the new owners eventually resold.

In 1855, the settlement became an incorporated village, and was officially renamed Freguesia de Santo Antonio de Paquequer; however, the local inhabitants had already become accustomed to calling their home Therezopolis (named for the Empress Tereza Cristina). At this time, the village had a population of 2,000.

Count D’Eu and Princess Isabel visited Teresópolis in 1868; Emperor Dom Pedro II visited in 1870, and praised the village's beauty. On July 6, 1891, Brazilian officials upgraded the village's status to municipality.