In a press release, the Tomar (Santarém) City Council reported on the visitors it received last year, indicating that, “in visits to museum facilities and monuments managed by the municipality”, there was an “increase of around 7% in entries compared to the previous year”, totaling close to 200 thousand visits.

Thus, in 2024, 195,540 visitors were registered in the cultural facilities managed by the municipality of Tomar, while in 2023, the year of the Festa dos Tabuleiros, an event that takes place every four years, there were 182,126 visitors and in 2022 134,071 were registered.

Of the 195,540 visitors to Tomar's municipally managed cultural facilities in 2024, 112,408 were Portuguese (57.49%) and 83,132 were foreigners (42.51%).

Among foreign visitors, 21.52% came from the United States of America, 14.62% from Spain, 11.98% from France and 9.89% from Brazil.

In a statement, Tomar City Council indicates that the number of visitors in 2024 is “very significant” and reveals how the city has seen “increased tourist demand regardless of the Convent of Christ”, the values ​​of which are not included in this calculation, since that monument, a World Heritage Site, is not under the supervision of the municipality.

Lusa contacted the management of the Convent of Christ, managed by Museus e Monumentos de Portugal, with an official source from the monument indicating that the figures for 2024 have not yet been released by the authority, but “exceed the 311,879 visitors registered in 2023”.

Among the cultural facilities managed by the municipality of Tomar, the Synagogue was once again the most visited monument, with a total of 47,841 entries, of which 28,943 were from foreigners.

The Synagogue's Interpretive Center also maintained this trend, with a total of 27,096 visits, of which 15,336 were from outside the country.

The second most popular place was the Chapel of Santa Iria, which registered a total of 31,261 visitors, with the vast majority (20,942) being Portuguese tourists.

The Levada Cultural Complex, which houses the Tomarense Foundry and Power Plant Museum Centers, the Tomar Templário Interpretive Center, as well as Moagem A Portuguesa, with the “Fábrica das Artes | Tomar” project, represented 20.9% of the total visits, with 40,848 visitors, spread across the various spaces.