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Disneyland
Paris, that bastion of culture - gets 12,4 million
visitors a year
Eiffel
Tower - Prepare to queue with the 5,9 million visitors a year
The Louvre Museum
gets 5,7 million visitors a year – Most of them re-enacting
the Da Vinci Code
Musée National d’Art Moderne et la Bibliothèque
Publique (Pompidou
Centre) receives around 5.3 million culture vultures a year
Château de Versaiile on the outskirts of Paris is one of
France’s most impressive locations and receives 2.9 million
visitors a year
Musée d’Orsay in Paris (art) gets around 1.8 million
million visitors
Parc Astérix - Theme Park northwest of Paris based on the
Astérix and Obelix characters gets 1.8 million visitors
Lille Zoo is a dark horse with 1.5 million visitors (site in French
only)
The space aged Futuroscope
Theme Park near Poitiers has its own TGV station and gets 1.2
million visitors a year
Le Puy du Fou Theme Park south of Nantes does excellent re-enactments
of conflicts throughout history. This is a theme park where you may
actually learn something. Le Puy du Fou gets 1.1 million visitors
a year. See list of themeparks
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