The Statue of Liberty, an enduring symbol of freedom and democracy, stands in New York Harbor on Liberty Island off the coast of Manhattan. Beyond its iconic exterior, the statue's infrastructure is a monument of engineering and innovation and was designed by Gustave Eiffel and his company on the outskirts of Paris in the 1880s.
France gifted the statue to the United States to commemorate the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence and to cement the deep relationship between the two countries.
