Statue Of Liberty

Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World, French: éclairant La Liberte goes the Le Monde) is in the middle of Manhattan in New York City in New York harbor colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island. Design and the October 28, 1886 made ​​by Frédéric Auguste Varga toldi the only statue is a gift to the people of France to the United States. Illustration of a woman dressed in a bear representing the Roman goddess of freedom of the United States Declaration of Independence date July 4, 1776 engraved on the broken chain lies at the torch and the tabula ansata (evoke a refined method) to the Statue of Liber her Lita on foot. The icon of freedom and the American Statue: welcome signal for foreign immigrants. 

Was inspired by the French politician Édouard René de Laboulaye and law professor, and he commented in 1865, would be a joint project of the French and the American people this monument raised to American independence is properly Bartholdi. He may be the mind of respecting the Union victory and the end of slavery in the American Civil War. The problem in France because I did not start until the early 1870s, the political situation in the statues work. 년 1875 Laboulaye was the French finance the statue funds and suggested that the United States provided the site and make a stand. Before the statue is completely in order to promote international exhibition design exhibition doegoyi piece was finished with the torch bearing arm hair is Bartholdi. 

Torch bearing arm is particularly difficult due to lack of funds by those in 1885, working in the United States and the rest were displayed in the Center in Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in Madison Square Park in New York in 1882 to raise funds in 1876 and 1876. 120000 Most participants were in New York publisher Joseph Pulitzer over the world who gave less than $ charm to drive for donations to complete the project started. Assembled on the completed what was then called Bedloe Island of international shipping in the box made ​​in france statue pedestal. Ticker tape parade in New York as the first show of the statue is completed and President Grover Cleveland presided over the ceremony. 

By the United States Lighthouse Board was by the war until 1901, and then part of the Statue of management; It is maintained by the National Park Service since 1933. It has been found to be worse, so I need major restoration closed for renovation for much of 1938 in the early 1980s statue. Torch and a large part of the internal structure of a closed state from 1984 to 1986, a statue was changed Close. Was closed for reasons of safety and security after September 11, 2001 attacks; The base was reopened in 2004, and restrictions on the number of visitors in 2009, a statue crown can rise. Been closed for years until it to be installed and the secondary staircase and other safety features statues October 28, 2012, including the pedestal base; Liberty Island has remained open. However, due to the effects of daily reopened Liberty Island closed after Hurricane Sandy; opened again in July 1916 banned for safety from the balcony 04 2013 the torch statue and public access around the island.