Pont de Grenelle

The Pont de Grenelle is a steel girder bridge that spans the River Seine, easily identified by the way it rests upon the central pier of the Île aux Cygnes. This artificial island, created in eighteen twenty-seven to separate river traffic, serves as the home for a quarter-scale replica of the Statue of Liberty. Standing over eleven meters high, the bronze figure sits at the southern end of the island, positioned to face west toward New York.