Montmartre has long time been a village of its own outside the Parisian city limits and inhabited by quarrymen, millers and winegrowers. Even after its incorporation into the French capital in 1860, it kept its own identity.

When life in the city centre became more expensive, artists moved up “La Butte”, the hill, as Montmartre is locally known: among them Picasso, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Erik Satie… They set up their studios and spent their nights in the many cabarets and taverns such as the Lapin Agile Cabaret, the Moulin Rouge and the Chat Noir Cabaret.

Thanks to its unique atmosphere, Montmartre is the ideal place for a stroll combining famous monuments like the Sacre-Coeur Basilica and curiosities such as the “Moulin de la Galette” windmill or Paris’ unique vineyards.

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