Montmartre
Sacre Coeur to the Moulin Rouge

During your visit in Paris, you should plan a day to visit the Sacre Coeur and the sights around it.

You will like to walk on the small streets around.

To come to the Sacre Coeur, it will be much easier to take the Metro and stop at the station Anvers.

Favorite walk

Walk to the rue Briquet and the rue Seveste to arrive at the funicular (funiculaire). It helps you to save some energy. Have an extra metro ticket to take the funicular. If you feel like climbing all the stairs it's fine!
Excellent pictures of Paris could be taken.

Sacre Coeur this Basilica is beautiful with its romanesque and byzantine archictecture was built in 1873.

Place du Tertre is a village atmosphere square where there are many good painters, also the food is great with a large choice of restaurants.

Chapelle du Martyre 9 rue Yvonne Le Tac. The Martyr's Chapel -It was in the crypt of the original chapel where St Denis said he has been martyred around AD 250.

Cimetiere de Montmartre Rachel Avenue. The Montmartre Cemetery has famous people buried here like Emile Zola (French writer), Adolph Sax (inventor of the saxophone), Jean Honore Fragonard (painter), Dalida (singer)...

Cimetiere St Vincent 6 rue Lucien Gaulard. The St Vincent Cemetry is the second cemetery of Montmartre. There are around 900 graves. One is Maurice Utrillo a French painter borned on the hill. His Mom also was a painter and a model of Toulouse Lautrec and Ren

Espace Salvador-Dali 11 rue Poulbot. The Dali Center is a museum where you can see sculptures and lithographs of the famous Salvador Dali.

Halle Saint Pierre 2 rue Ronsard. 19th century market hall has a children play area, a cafe, a bookstore and Max Fourny Museum of Naive Art (Musee de l'Art Naif Max Fourny).

Lapin Agile 22 rue des Saules. It's a bar cabaret, still a picturesque place in Paris where you can here these French folk music Edith Piaf songs, chansons of Paris. Reservation 01 46 06 85 87.

Bateau Lavoir 13 de la place Emile Goudreau. It is the name of a building where people like writers, painters Guillaume Appolinaire, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and others have lived here.

Le Moulin de la Galette rue Tholoze, is a windmill one of the two left here. Its name come from the galettes made from leftover flour. Famous paintings of the Moulin de la Galette by Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso.

Rue Lepic is an ancient road where famous people has lived or worked on it Jehan Rictus a French poet, Van Gogh and his brother at 54 rue Lepic.

Le Moulin Rouge 82 boulevard de clichy was built originally as a windmill. Now it's a world famous cabaret. www.moulinrouge.fr

Musee de Montmartre 12 rue Cortot. This Museum was a studio for painters, writers and artists. Renoir painted here the Moulin de la Galette.

Place des Abbesses is a triangular square with its country style. The Metro Abbesses is very deep (36 m) also watch the entrance this iron structure designed by Hector Guimard (Art Nouveau).

Place Blanche the White Square name come from the white clouds arriving directly from the windmills. Notables people have lived on the boulevard de Clichy Edgar Degas a Frech artist lived here at the number 6 ; Pablo Picasso at the 11 of the boulevard Clichy.

Little train

Le Petit Train is a fun way to visit include a 40 minutes guided tour. Departure at the Metro Blanche, Place Blanche, Le Moulin Rouge, Cimetière de Montmartre, La basilique du Sacre Coeur, Amphithéâtre / Arènes, Eglise Saint-Pierre, Place du Tertre, Espace Dali, Musée Montmartre, Les Vignes de Montmartre, Le Lapin Agile, Cimetière Saint-Vincent, Place Constantin Pecqueur, La Halle et le Marche Saint-Pierre, Anvers, Place Blanche. Price adult 6€, kids (less 12 years old) 3.50 €.

Montmartrobus is a minibus service who takes you round the small streets. Required a metro ticket. Starts at the metro Pigalle. Stop Martyrs, Orsel, Abbesses,Yvonne Le Tac, Durantin-Burq, Tholozé, Chappe, Drevet, Tourlaque, Gabrielle, 88 rue Lepic, Moulin de la Galette, Funiculaire, Place du Tertre–Norvins, Utrillo, Abreuvoir–Girardon, Saules–Cortot, Mont-Cenis–Cortot, Chevalier de la Barre, Les Vignes, Lamarck–Becquerel, Lamarck–Mont-Cenis, Lamarck–Caulaincourt, Custine–Mont-Cenis, Custine–Ramey, Marcadet.

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