Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has attracted six million visitors since its reopening.

 Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, restored after a fire that devastated it in 2019, has attracted more than six million visitors since its reopening last December, according to figures published Sunday.

"Notre-Dame is now the most visited monument in France," cathedral official Monsignor Olivier Ribadeau-Dumas told La Tribune Dimanche.

"The impact of the fire is only matched by the impact of the reopening," he added.

Notre-Dame welcomed 6.02 million people between December 16, 2024, and June 30, 2025, with an average of 35,000 visitors per day, according to figures published in La Tribune Dimanche.

If this demand continues into the second half of the year, the number of visitors to the cathedral is expected to reach approximately 12 million in 2025, surpassing the Sacré-Coeur Basilica in Montmartre (9 million visitors in 2024), the Louvre (8.7 million), the Palace of Versailles (8.4 million), and the Eiffel Tower (6.3 million), according to the same source.

Monsignor Ribadeau-Dumas noted that before the fire that destroyed it on April 15, 2019, the cathedral attracted approximately "11 million people" annually, although the statistics were less reliable.

Ribado-Dumas believed that the increase in visitor numbers was not temporary, "because the average increase is about a thousand people per day, each month."

Starting September 20, visits to the two towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, which were destroyed by a fire in 2019, will resume, the National Monuments Centre, which manages the site, announced Monday. Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral reopened its doors after a massive five-year restoration project funded by donations totaling €846 million from around the world.