A tourist in New York City with photo camera. Statue Of Liberty
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The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, was built by Gustave Eiffel and dedicated on October 28, 1886. It was a gift to the United States from the people of France.
The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence,
July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of
freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to
immigrants arriving from abroad.
On March 30, 2009, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
confirmed that the building would be officially known by its legal name
of "One World Trade Center", rather than its colloquial name of
"Freedom Tower". The building is 104 standard floors high, but the tower
has only 94 actual stories.
The new
World Trade Center complex will eventually include five high-rise office
buildings built along Greenwich Street, as well as the National
September 11 Memorial & Museum,
located just south of One World Trade Center where the original Twin
Towers stood. The construction of the new building is part of an effort
to memorialize and rebuild following the destruction of the original
World Trade Center complex.
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