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World's Most-Visited Tourist Attractions
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No. 29 Musée du Louvre, Paris
Annual Visitors: 8,500,000
The world’s largest museum is both the subject of ongoing architectural controversy—not everyone agrees with the 1989 addition of I. M. Pei’s 69-foot-high glass pyramid entrance—and an art-lover’s wonderland of some 35,000 masterworks. Throngs parade through the former 12th-century palace annually to see such famous highlights as Leonardo da Vinci’s smiling La Gioconda, a.k.a. Mona Lisa—a painting that was originally commissioned by François I to hang above his bathtub. —Adrien Glover
Source: The Art Newspaper
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