City ​​of love, paris

What does the Statue of Liberty mean?

His name is eloquent enough. Liberty is this imposing woman, standing, dressed in a stole and crowned with diadem of seven peaks, representing the seven continents and the seven seas. The 25 windows of the diadem represent earth gems, diadem that in turn recalls the one used by the god Helios, the Sun for the Greeks. In his right hand he raises a torch that illuminates the world, and in his left hand he has a tablet that bears the date on which the Declaration of Independence of the United States was signed.
The statue rises 46 meters and if we count the height from the ground to the tip of the torch they are 93 meters in total. At his feet some broken chains symbolize more freedom. Whose? Well, from Great Britain, located like the rest of Europe to the east, which is where the monument faces.

Visit the Statue of Liberty

To make the visit you must buy the ferry ticket and plan the visit. The company is Statue Cruises, the only one authorized to take passengers to the islands, and the same ticket gives you access to the ferries, the surroundings, the museum and the audio guides. Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty are only accessible by ferries departing from locations in Lower Manhattan and New Jersey.
Isla Libertad has a nice park and museum and is the best for taking photos of the monument from different angles. The statue museum has great exhibits and you'll see the original torch on display. For its part, Ellis Island opens a window on the history of immigration to America.
One of the emblematic monuments of Paris is the Eiffel Tower. It is one of those typical constructions discussed and rejected that time ends up placing in the place of a tourist and cultural icon.
The Eiffel Tower is the must-see when you are visiting the French capital, but how to climb the eiffel tower It is something you should know before setting foot in Paris.
It is a very tall wrought iron structure, that is, iron with a little carbon, which makes it a very hard and very malleable material. Is located on the Champs de Mars, in Paris, and bears the surname of its builder and designer, Gustave Eiffel.
Tower it was built between 1887 and 1889 as the heart of the 1889 World's Fair. It is 330 meters high, with 125 meters on each side. Obviously, at the time it was the tallest structure in the world and the title was held until 1930 when the Chrysler Building in New York took it away. It has three levels that receive visitors, restaurants and a platform that today is the highest open to the public in the EU.
The construction brought a lot of criticism, it was, after all, a horrible black iron construction, but nothing stopped it and the glory was the best reward. Beyond iron, technology was present in this XNUMXth century construction: it had elevators for visitors, always thinking of all those who would attend the world fair. So, several were installed. The one that reaches the first level did not imply difficulties, the one on the second was a little more challenging and the one that reaches the third level has already completed a mandatory transfer of passengers.
The Eiffel Tower opened nine days after the fair opened and still without the elevators operating. It doesn't matter: it was a success and no one cared about climbing the 1710 steps until the elevators started working. Imagine that: a dark iron tower decorated with white, red and blue gas lamps against the night sky of a shadowed Paris. Fantastic!