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This Dublin landmark was just named the best tourist attraction in Europe

And it beat out some ridiculous competition.

Sep 6th 2015, 1:30 PM 4,114 Views 1 Comment

Guinness Storehouse - Dublin, Ireland Source: Dougtone

WE KNEW IT was a half decent spot to visit when you’re in Dublin, but now the Guinness Storehouse has won some international recognition as well.

The Storehouse was named as Europe’s leading tourist attraction by the World Travel Awards last night. And a quick look at the other nominees shows the fairly ridiculous standard of competition it was up against:

Acropolis, Athens
Buckingham Palace, England
La Sagrada Familia, Spain
Ribeira do Porto, Portugal
the Roman Colosseum, Italy
the Eiffel Tower, France

Not bad at all.

Guinness Storehouse Source: ccharmon

By winning this award, the Storehouse is automatically in the running to be named as the world’s leading tourist attraction by the same organisation.

Can it go one better? It’s going to be scary to see the shortlist for the global award, if the European one features such esteemed destinations.

Even though Guinness has branched out to non-alcoholic drink in Asia recently, it’s still nice to see the old Storehouse turning heads.

Representin’.

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This Dublin landmark was just named the best tourist attraction in Europe

And it beat out some ridiculous competition.

More Someone cut the widget out of a can of Guinness because they thought it was a random ball>