Museums: 55 million admissions in 2019, slow down bad weather

(by Silvia Lambertucci) (ANSA) - ROME, JAN 25 - Over 55 million visitors in 2019 for Italian museums. With a slight decrease compared to 2018, it starts due to bad weather waves, which caused the archaeological parks and outdoor sites to be affected, but also to the partial cancellation of the free Sundays, newly restored and made permanent by Dario Franceschini with his return to the Roman College in September of this year.
At the top there is always the Colosseum, always the most iconic and popular monument in Italy, in 2019 with 7.5 million presences, about 100 thousand less than a year ago. Follow the Uffizi Galleries - for the first time considered in their gold, that is, with the Boboli gardens and Palazzo Pittiche, they add to the famous art gallery - with 4.5 million visits, and therefore the Pompeii excavations, in fact the only archaeological site that it is not even affected by rain and storms, resulting in a miracle of 160,000 more presences, for a total that is now approaching 4 million tickets detached (they were 2.5 million not more than five years ago).
So much so, however "extraordinary" results, comments Francesca, who next Wednesday will present 12 new international calls to the press for as many museums (there are 8 dinners that have just been promoted, from the Gerolamini Complex to the Royal Palace of Naples, from the Pinacoteca di Bologna to the Roman duo of Palazzo Venezia and Vittoriano). (HANDLE).