Statue of Liberty Park - New York City, NY
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Metro2
N 40° 41.370 W 074° 02.662
18T E 580746 N 4504728
Statue of Liberty Park is a Bookcrossing Zone.
Waymark Code: WMQP0M
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 03/10/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member bluesnote
Views: 28

The Statue of Liberty is of course the prime attraction in the Park. Wikipedia (visit link) infroms us:

"The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, 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 of freedom, 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: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.

Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. Due to the troubled political situation in France, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s. In 1875, Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the Americans provide the site and build the pedestal. Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions."
Address:
Liberty Island
NYC, NY USA


Availability: From: 10:00 AM To: 6:00 PM

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