The Eiffel Tower received 5.8 million visitors last year, almost as many as in 2019, before the novel Coronavirus pandemic, the operator announced.
Many of the visitors who flocked to the monument that dominates the Paris skyline were international tourists.
In 2019, 6.2 million people visited the Eiffel Tower. In the years that followed, there were far fewer visitors, due in part to mandatory closures during the pandemic.
In 2021, the monument was only open for five months, receiving 2.1 million visitors.
Last year the number climbed to 5.8 million, almost half of them from Europe.
Italian and Spanish tourists led the rankings among Europeans, each accounting for about 8% of total visitors, followed by Germany and the United Kingdom (7%) then Belgium and the Netherlands (2%). Americans alone accounted for 11% of all visits.
On Thursday, major Paris museums announced their visitor figures, and they, too, showed strong growth compared to 2021. The Louvre had 7.8 million visitors last year, the Palace of Versailles 6.9 million, and the Musée d’Orsay and Centre Pompidou 3 million each.
