Sydney, July 3 (ANI): Tourists choose Notre Dame Cathedral over Eiffel Tower, the city's tourism office revealed on Monday.
Thirteen Paris landmarks attracted more than one million visitors last year but the Cathedral was tourist's top choice and far ahead of the emblematic Tower.
Around 13.6 million tourists flocked the Gothic cathedral on a little islet on the River Seine, followed by Sacre Coeur-a basilica perched on a hill in Montmartre overlooking the city-which attracted 10.5 million.
Nearly nine million visited the Louvre and the numbers at one of the world's largest museums increased 5.6 percent year-on-year, while the Eiffel Tower got 7.1 million visitors, also a 5.6 percent increase.
3.6 million people visited the Pompidou Centre, a museum designed in the style of high-tech architecture by famed Italian architect Renzo Piano.
While, the Musee d'Orsay, housing an impressive collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings in a converted railway station, attracted 3.1 million visitors.
"Visiting museums and monuments constitutes the main motivation for visiting Paris (65 per cent)," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted the office statement.
"With 72.6 million visitors, the numbers going to the 64 Parisian cultural sites surveyed increased by more than 2.5 per cent" year-on-year, it said.
"Americans and Britons comprised the largest number of visitors" to museums, it said, stressing that the numbers of Brazilians, Russians and Chinese had risen substantially. (ANI)
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