Vatican museums hit new record in 2011
Over 5 mln visitors for first time
10 January, 16:22
(ANSA) - Vatican City, January 10 - The Vatican Museums broke
their own record for visitor numbers to any site in Italy in
2011, attracting more than five million people for the first
time, Director Antonio Paolucci said Tuesday.
"By December 31, at midnight, 5,078,004 people had entered
the pope's museums," Paolucci told Vatican daily l'Osservatore
Romano.Paolucci said the figure was "particularly impressive" given that the second-biggest tourist lure in Italy, Florence's Uffizi Gallery, only managed to attract one and a half million people last year".
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