The Statue of Liberty is among the top 10 tourist draws in New York City. Boatloads of people take ferries out into the harbor to get a closer look of this famous statue, which has come to symbolize what is good about the United States. When “she” is lit up at night, it is as though the statue is extending its arm in a welcoming gesture, a greeting to all that they have reached a safe place.
The statue was a gift to America from France, designed by famous sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, but the internal build, so to speak, the structure within that allows it to stand and extend that famous arm, was designed by architect Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel, as virtually everyone on the planet knows, gifted Paris with a similarly famous landmark, the Eiffel Tower.
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