Barcelona brings in '15m tourists per year'
Barcelona brings in '15m tourists per year'
Barcelona city breaks are the most popular in Spain, according to new visitor numbers.
Statistics from the Spanish tourism ministry showed that Spanish traveller numbers grew by one million over 2007, with Catalonia emerging as the most popular region of the country for foreigners.
Some 15 million people now visit Barcelona annually, taking advantage of bargain airfares to book hotels and villas in the Catalonian capital and the surrounding area.
Boasting plentiful attractions and the dual appeal of sea and mountains on either side, the city's leading tourist location was said to be the Sagrada Familia, garnering 2,056,448 visits per year.
The Roman Catholic church was designed by modernist architect Antonio Gaudi, whose influence is spread around the city in elegant building facades and landscaped parks.
The statistics showed that the increase in traveller numbers brought the number of visitors in Spain up to 59.2 million in 2007, far outstripping the country's population.
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