Lego Architecture Нью-Йорк (21028) [6/116] The statue of liberty

Standing on Liberty Island at the entrance to New York

Harbor, the Statue of Liberty was a welcoming signal

to millions of immigrants and a symbol of freedom and

democracy in the United States.

Bartholdi and given as a gift to the United States from the

people of France, the robed female figure represents the

Roman goddess Libertas. In one hand she raises a torch,

in the other she holds a tablet inscribed with the date of

the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

The 151 ft. (46 m) tall copper statue was constructed in

France and shipped in pieces to the completed pedestal

on what was then called Bedloe’s Island. The dedication

ceremony in October 1886 was presided over by

President Grover Cleveland and marked by New York’s

first ever ticker-tape parade.

The Statue of Liberty