Statue of Liberty

Frederic Auguste: Frenchman is a sculptor born in 1834 in the city of Colmar Alzasip and completed his education in sculpture and painting in Paris and then visited Egypt and Yemen, where known to the Suez Canal, and returned to his hometown to become a sculptor and the first great work is El General Rap and most famous work is the Statue of Liberty and died on October 4, 1904 at the age of 70 years and when he visited Frederick Egypt that friendship with Ferdinand Delyecebs and had conceived Frederick beacon of light to set up at the entrance of the Suez Canal and made the project twice during the reign of Khedive Ismail, but may be given Patent project from the United States in 1879

Statue of Liberty is the work of art sculptural France has gifted to the United States of America October 28, 1886 as a souvenir to document the relationship between the two countries on the occasion of the centennial of the American Revolution from 1775 to 1783 m and has since settled the statue by location overlooking the Bay of New York, New York United States to be in receiving all visitors to the country, whether they are tourists or migrants Fteredrick designed by Bartholdi designed the structure, while structural Gustave Eiffel.

Location and Area:

Stabilize the statue on Liberty Island in the Gulf of New York, where a distance of 600 meters from Jersey City, New Jersey and 2.6 kilometers to the southwest of Manhattan, a total area of 49.000 square meters.

Bust:

Real name of this statue is "freedom lights the world" and is a woman freed from the shackles of tyranny, which was thrown at one of her feet. This lady stuck in her left hand a book engraved with the characters Roman phrase "July 4, 1776" and is the history of American Independence On her head She wears a crown composed of 7 rays of teeth is to symbolize the seven continents in the world.

Based on the base of the statue Osmonip - granite width 47 meters (154 feet) and a length of the foot to the top of the torch 46 meters, while a total length of 93 meters to al Qaeda.

Is access to the island using statements and then the visitors to ascend to the crown top of the statue using the stairs and it Itloa the panoramic scenery of the Gulf of New York and around it.

And the visitor can recognize the history of the statue during a visit of the museum is located at the base of the statue and being boarded by using the elevators.

Fast facts about the statue:

Was the unveiling of the statue on in 1886.

Age: 124 years in 2010.

Total weight: 125 tons.

Height of the statue: 46 meters.

View Rule: 47 meters.

Overall height: 93 meters.

Along the right arm: 12.80 meters.

Showing the face from ear to ear 3.05 meters.

View center: 10.67 meters.

The annual number of visitors in 2004: 3 million.

Date of accession to the World Heritage: 1984.