Statue of Liberty (New York, USA)

"Give me your tired, your poor ..."

In 1886, France presented a large gift to the United States to mark the Centennial of the Declaration of Independence - a statute of Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, sculpted by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. She is made of pure cooper over a steel framework. She stands 151 feet tall (46.5m), atop a 154-foot (46.9m) foundation, at Liberty Island in New York Harbor.