A total of 13 tourist attractions in Paris, France, attracting more than one million visitors last year. When the Eiffel Tower called boost the prestige of France, in fact it is not.
Notre Dame de Paris tourist favorite tops, far beyond the Eiffel Tower. Gothic cathedral in a small island in the Seine River is able to suck the 13.6 million tourists, followed by the Sacre Coeur, a basilica in the Montmartre hill overlooking the city, able to attract 10.5 million tourists. According to the release of the City of Paris tourism office, recently.
The next favorite is the Louvre Museum, one of the largest museums in the world to attract nine million tourists, up 5.6 percent from year to year. Meanwhile, the Eiffel Tower attracted 7.1 million visitors, the increase is also 5.6 percent per year.
Meanwhile, the Pompidou Centre, a museum designed in the style of high-tech architecture by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano, is visited by 3.6 million tourists. Musee d'Orsay, which displays a collection of impressionist paintings and post-impressionists at the railway station, attracting 3.1 million tourists.
"Visiting museums and monuments is the main motivation of tourists visiting Paris, the figure reached 65 percent of his visit," said a spokesman for the city's tourism office, said in a statement. "With 72.6 million visitors, 64 cultural sites they visit Paris, an increase of more than 2.5 percent from year to year," he added, as reported by the SMH, Wednesday (07/03/2012).
Another fact revealed that tourists from America and Britain to occupy the highest number of visits to museums in France. The next rank is held by tourists Brazil, Russia, and China.
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