Statue of Liberty

T ferry ($12) leaves every 25 minutes Battery P stops Liberty Island Ellis Island. Y ( advance) reserve enter museum statue, undergo cumbersome security procedures actually enter museum statue's pedestal (visitors longer allowed crown, torch). T Immigration Museum Ellis Island worth visit, . B Liberty Island Ellis Island p every y y except December 25 9:30AM until 5PM ( extended hours summer).

Liberty Enlightening World (French: L liberté éclairant monde), commonly known Statue Liberty (French: Statue Liberté), presented United States y people France 1886. I stands Liberty Island, N Y welcome visitors, immigrants, returning Americans. T copper - statue, dedicated October 28, 1886, commemorates centennial United States gesture friendship France U.S. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi sculpted statue obtained U.S. patent useful raising construction funds through miniatures. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (designer Eiffel Tower) engineered internal structure. Eugène Viollet--D responsible choice copper statue's construction adoption repoussé technique.

T statue robed woman holding flame, sheeting p copper, g framework steel (originally puddled ) exception flame torch, which coated g (originally copper later altered glass panes.) I stands p rectangular stonework pedestal foundation shape irregular eleven-pointed . T statue 151 (46 ) tall, pedestal foundation, 305 (93 ) .

Worldwide, Statue Liberty recognizable icons United States , generally, represents liberty escape oppression. T Statue Liberty , 1886 until j g, often first glimpses United States millions immigrants after ocean voyages Europe. Visually, Statue Liberty appears inspiration Sancarlone Colossus Rhodes.

T statue central p Statue Liberty National Monument, administered y National P Service.