New York City

The Statue of Liberty at New York Harbor had been a gift by the people of France to express international friendship and globally recognized as one of the universal symbols of political freedom and democracy.

Inscribed in the statue is Emma Lazarus famous poem, inspired by the mass exodus of Jewish refugees from Russia to America in 1880.

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

Since Sep 11 you cannot visit the inside of the Statue of for security reasons, but it might get opened again one fine day.