The Statue of Liberty 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 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.
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