Hymn to Liberty - United States, New York

Special feature United States, New York : Hymn to Liberty

Offered by France in 1886, the Statue of Liberty has become in a few years a symbol of hope for the millions of immigrants that arrived in great numbers in the port of New York right from the start of the Twentieth Century. Work of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, whose 170th birthday was celebrated by the city of Colmar last year, "Miss Liberty" was built thanks to the talent of another famous Frenchman, Gustave Eiffel, to whom the statue owes its flexible steel structure. Inaugurated in October 28th 1886, it has since welcomed crowds of visitors. You embark from Battery Park, at the end of Manhattan. Another very important stop of this mini-cruise, is the tour of Ellis Island and its immigration centre, that, from 1892 to 1954, welcomed no less than seventeen million people in search of a better world.

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