He Royal Alcazar of Seville has again beaten this month a new visitor recordwith nearly 208,000 recorded in September and with a cumulative total of almost 1.8 million so far this year, approaching the figure recorded in all of 2023, of more than 1.9 million visits. That, when there are still three months left for the palace complex to close its balance sheet. 2024, in which it is expected reach 2.21 million visitors to the Alcázarsurpassing the barrier of two million, which it had not reached since 2019, the year in which it reached its historical maximum.
Specifically, this Royal Palace, the oldest in use in Europe, has recorded a total of 207,858 visits in Septemberwith which it has accumulated 1,761,173 so far this year, a figure that is close to that registered in 2023, in which it reached 1,928,844 visitors, so that “with almost all probability they will exceed, by far, the two million visits to the monumental complex”. A barrier that It has not been surpassed since 2019before the Covidwhen the historical record was broken, with 2,067,016 people.
The behavior in These first three quarters have been better than the previous yearto a greater or lesser extent, with better figures in the nine months compared. This last month, the difference compared to the data recorded for the same period in 2023 has been 12,824 more visitors, although is far from the 60,702 more visits in February compared to the previous year, according to data provided by the City Council and closed on September 30.
Busiest months
After April (267,181), the months with the highest number of visitors have been March (226,351), May (219,736) and the aforementioned month of September (207,858), while at the other extreme is January, with 117,640 visits, online with the trend experienced in previous years. As usual, The months of spring and September take the top spots, and the summer period, on the contrary, is characterized by having lower numbers. Even so, always above 160,000 visitors.
In 2023, May and April, with 215,050 and 196,658 visits, were the months with the best public behavior. This year, the best figure for 2023 has been surpassed up to three times. Not in vain, except for the month of May, with an increase of only 2% in the number of visits, percentages of around 20 and 35% have been recorded on several occasions and it has touched 50% in February .
With these data, in these first nine months, 285,000 more visits have already been recorded than in that same period of 2023 and The figure for the entire year 2022 (1,732,845) has been exceeded, which suggests that, just equaling the numbers of the last three months of the previous year, this year would close with 2.21 million visitors to the Alcázar.
