The Statue of Liberty an the icon of the United States and New York City. Located on a small island in New York’s Harbor called Liberty Island, this enormous statue (stands 6 m from the beginnig of the pedestal to the top of the flame and more than 90 m from the ground).

This statue, which symbolizes liberty enlightening the world, is made of a steel skeleton covered with hammered copper sheets . The statue was designed by little known Bartholdi, while the steel internal structure was created by the famous Gustave Eiffel, the inventor of Paris’s Eiffel Tower.

France donated the statue to the United States to celebrate the centennial of United States independence. The Statue of Liberty represents a robed woman holding a torch symbolizing liberty in one hand, and a tablet showing the date of American Independence, July 4th 1776, in the other one.

As of July 4th 2009 it will be possible to reach the crown of the statue, walking up a spiral staircase. Presently visitors can access the pedestal and the museum.

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