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Located in the port of New York, near the entrance to New York - Elis Island, the Statue of Liberty is a symbolic gift from France to the United States to commemorate republicanism.

The idea of ​​the construction of the Statue of Liberty began in 1865 when French politicians and law professor René Édouard de Laboulaye said in a conversation after dinner at his home in Versailles, "If a monument is expected to increase the United States, as a monument to independence, I think it's natural, if it had been built by the united effort -. a common work of our two nations "This gave the young French sculpture Auguste Frédéric Bartholdi, who was present at that dinner, the idea of ​​building a giant statue honoring the efforts of the United States and France in the maintenance of freedom.

Therefore, during the early years of the decade of 1870, Bartholdi began to conceive the creation of the statue. Over the years, he and his team used the individual sheets of copper were beaten, pressed, curved shapes, and joined to form the statue. On October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was dedicated to the United States of America.

The statue is a female figure dressed in robes representing the Roman goddess of freedom - freedom. The statue holds a torch and a tablet of the law or "tabula ansata" which was written on U.S. Independence Day. There is also a broken chain that can be sen at the foot of the statue. Since its inception, the Statue of Liberty has become the symbol of U.S. freedom and democracy. Which served as inspiration for millions of immigrants living in the U.S.