Arona, Province of Novara, Lake Maggiore, Piedmont
about 15 Km or 9 miles from where I live, there is the Colossus of San Carlo Borromeo that inspired the French Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi for his project of the Statue of Liberty in New York, and for about two centuries it was the tallest statue in the world.
New York friends can check this by going to the Statue of Liberty, where at the base there is a plaque that remembers who the builders were inspired by.