Around 350,000 visitors for the Amazônia exhibition by Sebastião Salgado at the Palais des Papes in Avignon
“It’s a great success”, welcomes Avignon Tourisme. In fact, approximately 350,000 people came to visit the “Amazônia” exhibition signed Sebastião Salgado: 200 photos of the Amazon rainforest and the tribes that live there exhibited in the great chapel of the Palais des Papes from June 27 to November 30. Jean-Michel Jarre signed the musical composition.
The attraction of works
The quality of the exhibition has something to do with this success. Sebastião Salgado is a world famous and recognized photographer, member of the Academy of Fine Arts. The artist traveled the Amazon rainforest for six years to be able to take these shots. Its notoriety must have provided many visitors. Of the 350,000 visitors, 35,000 came on purpose to see the exhibit. The others have also taken a ticket which also allows them to visit the Palace of the Popes.
A good tourist season
The attendance of the Ernest Pignon Ernest exhibition is not beaten (400,000 visitors in 2019) but it should be remembered that the latter had lasted three months longer than that of Sebastião Salgado which has just ended at the Palace of the Popes. In addition, that of Ernest Pignon Ernest took place in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic. The cards are therefore very different this year.
Avignon Tourisme therefore also sees in these 350,000 visitors to the “Amazônia” exhibition, the sign of a clear recovery of tourism as a whole this summer after the pandemic, with mainly French tourists, but also the return of foreigners, such as Anglo-Saxons.