Architecture

Bartholdi was inspired by Eugene Delacroix's painting, Liberty Leading the People. The face of the Statue of Liberty has the features of Bartholdi's mother and, reportedly, the body of his mistress.

In one of the halls there is a colorful stained glass window depicting a scene from Wagner's opera T ...

The campanile reaches a height of 56,705 m and its deviation from the vertical increases by one millimeter per year.

At the Malbork Castle, the road to Gdańsk was marked with carved devil-shaped supports whose tails p ...

The price was £32.000, and in the autumn of the same year, Prince Albert formally took possession of ...

In 1883 it was called the "New York and Brooklyn Bridge" because Brooklyn was not part of New York until 1898. The name "Brooklyn Bridge" was given in 1915.

They were transported from a quarry 25 kilometers away from the temple and set up circularly, 33 met ...

Its reconstruction began later that year and lasted until 1963.

The ceremony was accompanied by the first ticker-tape parade in U.S. history.