With more holidays approaching, families won't all
celebrate at home they
will find the most popular tourist attractions to visit a round the world to
relax. Hordes are hopping onto planes, trains and buses to play tourist all
over the world, using breaks from daily obligations to relax on a beach or
check out some ancient ruins. Where to, how to compile a list of the top
tourist attractions to visit in cities around the world.
Note that the following statistic conveniently
keeps track of the most visited attractions worldwide via Love Home Swap. We
drew from the most recent rankings, which are based on data from April 2014.
This isn't a list of the most visited sites in the world - we chose cities and
found their most visited site, though these were all near the top. Some
metropolises, like New York, have multiple tourist attractions which fared well
in this list, but we went with only the top site for each city as a benchmark
to put the cities in order from least visitors to most.
The Zocalo, was established in year 1813 (when
Mexico’s first constitution was proclaimed) in Mexico City, Mexico. There are 10,
000,000 visitors per year. Once the main center of the Aztec capital
Tenochtitlan, the Zocalo’s official name is the Plaza de la Constitucion and it
remains the main square of Mexico City. In each direction, it is 240 meters,
whi
ch is why it takes up an entire city block and is among the largest squares
in the world. Bullfighting used to go on in the area. Now, people gather there
for civic and cultural events, parades, festivals, and rallies. The huge
Mexican flag that flies smack in the middle of the Zocalo is ceremonially
raised at eight in the morning by soldiers of the Mexican army, and then
lowered each evening at six.
Famous performers also have been a part of the
square. Paul McCartney, in 2012, gave a free concert here to 250,000 anxious
fans, and Justin Bieber, that same year, performed to 200,000 Beliebers. Five
years prior, photo artist Spencer Tunick did something more unusual, when he
filled the Zocalo with 18,000 nude Mexicans.
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