The Statue of Liberty inaugurated in 1886, is a symbol of New York and of the entire United States of America, one of the most important and well-known monuments in the world.
Located at the harbor entrance on the Hudson River in the middle of Manhattan Bay, on the rocky Liberty Island in the state of New York.
The name of the work is The Liberty that illuminates the world.
It was built by the Frenchman Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, with the collaboration of Gustave Eiffel, who designed the interiors; the statue consists of an internal steel reticular structure and outside covered with 300 shaped copper sheets riveted together.
Resting on a gray-pink granite base that was long thought to be of Sardinian origin, although recent research has denied the origin of the rock from the island of La Maddalena and brought it back to the quarry of Stony Creecy in Connecticut.
With a height of 93 meters (including the base), which dominates the entire Manhattan bay in New York, it is perfectly visible up to 40 kilometers away.
It depicts a woman wearing a long toga and proudly holding a torch (symbol of the eternal fire of freedom) in her right hand, while in the other she holds a table bearing the date of American Independence Day (4th July 1776).
At the feet there are broken chains (symbol of liberation from the power of the despotic sovereign) and in the head there is a crown, whose seven points represent the seven seas and the seven continents.
Interior of the Statue.
Statue of Liberty
Address: Liberty Island New York, 10004 - Stati Uniti
Phone: +1 2123633200
Site:
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