Data from the Italian Statistical Yearbook 2018 outlines the dominance of cultural sites, monuments and museums in the central Italian regions of Lazio and Tuscany, especially in Rome and Florence. Just over 50 million people visited state museums, archaeological sites and monuments in 2017 across Italy. More than half of those were in the regions of Lazio and Tuscany. 

Rome and Florence proved to be the real magnets for visitors. Of 23 million entries to museums and archaeological sites in Lazio, 22 million alone were in Rome. Florence reflected a similar dominance in Tuscany. Of 7 million total entries in the central Italian region popular with foreign visitors, 6.5 million were in Florence.