More than 6 million visitors to Notre-Dame de Paris since its reopening

"Notre-Dame de Paris is today the most visited monument in France," Mgr Olivier Ribadeau Dumas, rector of the cathedral, assured the newspaper.

"The emotion aroused by the fire is only matched by that aroused by the reopening," he added.

In detail, Notre-Dame welcomed, between December 16, 2024 and June 30, 2025, 6,02 million people, an average of 35.000 visitors per day, according to figures published in La Tribune Dimanche.

If this attendance continues in the second half of the year, the cathedral should approach 12 million entries in 2025, and thus surpass the Sacré-Coeur Basilica in Montmartre (9 million visitors in 2024), the Louvre Museum (8,7 million), the Palace of Versailles (8,4 million) and the Eiffel Tower (6,3 million), according to the same source.

Before the fire that devastated the cathedral on April 15, 2019, it received around "11 million people" per year, recalled Bishop Ribadeau Dumas, even if the counting method was less reliable.

This is not just a passing fad for the rector, "because every month attendance increases by an average of 1.000 people per day," he told the newspaper.

The cathedral's spire was reunited in June with one of the 16 statues that adorned its base, and tours of the towers will resume on September 20, according to the Centre des Monuments Nationaux (CMN).

Notre-Dame de Paris has reopened its doors after five years of a titanic restoration project, funded by €846 million in donations from around the world.

"There is still nearly 140 million euros left," Philippe Jost, president of the public institution Rebuilding Notre-Dame de Paris, told La Tribune Dimanche. "But to complete the monument's full restoration as quickly as possible, (...) we are still at least the equivalent of that," he said.

He is therefore launching a "new appeal for donations" via the site rebuildnotredamedeparis.fr.