According to a study carried out by the tourist website Attraction Tix based on the images published on social networks, the Eiffel Tower is the monument that appears the most in selfies .
This study gave the first position to the tower of the Parisian capital based on the 10,700 messages counted in which it appeared throughout 2015 . In the same period, the second place went to Disney World in Orlando, the star of 9,870 selfies; and the third, for the tallest skyscraper in the world, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, with 8,860.
Outside the podium is London’s Big Ben –8,780–, followed in fifth place by the Empire State Building, the object of 8,430 selfies. After the New York building, there is the first location on Spanish soil: the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona –4,970– . In seventh place the French capital reappears, with Eurodisney –4,740–.
The list of the most popular tourist attractions continues with the Colosseum in Rome –4,670–, the Rockefeller Center in New York –4,290– and the Tower Bridge in London –3,820–. Beyond this top ten , we have places like the Sydney Opera House, the Vatican, the Statue of Liberty in New York or the ruins of Chichén Itzá, in Yucatán (Mexico). And a curiosity: the 34th place is occupied by the Camp Nou, the stadium of FC Barcelona .
What a stick …
In the near future, the number of self-portraits is likely to decline at some of the biggest tourist attractions, specifically those that have banned or are planning to ban the use of the popular selfie stick , as that veto will deter people from taking some of the same. you take them. This is what already happens in the Sistine Chapel, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Disney parks.
And, speaking of photos, if you still do not know Sightsmap, it is a very curious tool from Google that allows you to see, through a heat map, the most portrayed places in the world , according to the photos uploaded by users of the Panoramio mashup. The areas that appear in black are the least photographed, and those in yellow, the most (Spain is one of them).
