{"id":61521884,"date":"2012-01-03T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/the-louvre-retains-title-as-world-s-most-visited-museum\/"},"modified":"2018-11-16T10:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T10:42:24","slug":"the-louvre-retains-title-as-world-s-most-visited-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/the-louvre-retains-title-as-world-s-most-visited-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Louvre Retains Title as World\u2019s Most Visited Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"View of the Louvre from across the Seine River (Image: Fareportal Image Gallery)\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2012\/1\/louvre.jpg\" alt=\"View of the Louvre from across the Seine River (Image: Fareportal Image Gallery)\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Louvre along the Seine River <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Louvre Museum in <strong>Paris<\/strong> comfortably retained its title as the world\u2019s most visited museum, drawing more than 8.8 million visitors in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 8.8 million visitors marked a five percent increase year-over-year, according to a report in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/275561\/20120103\/louvre-retains-position-world-s-visited-art.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">International Business Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Museum officials attributed the rise to a significant increase in American visits. Scores of travelers arriving on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/cheap-flights-to-paris-par-france\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flights to Paris<\/a><\/strong> from other foreign countries like Brazil, Italy, Australia, and China also provided a major boost.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Louvre Museum is home to some of the world\u2019s most famous artworks, including the \u201cMona Lisa\u201d by Leonardo da Vinci. It beat out the British Museum and <strong>New York City<\/strong>\u2019s Metropolitan Museum of Art to hold on to the most-visited crown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Fareportal Image Gallery <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Louvre along the Seine River &nbsp; The Louvre Museum in Paris comfortably retained its title as the world\u2019s most visited museum, drawing more than 8.8 million visitors in 2011. &nbsp; The 8.8 million visitors marked a five percent increase year-over-year, according to a report in the International Business Times. &nbsp; Museum officials attributed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61521884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61521884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61521884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61521884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97201349,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61521884\/revisions\/97201349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61521884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61521884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61521884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}