Montmartre used to be a village outside Paris until it was annexed in 1861. Despite its numerous souvenir shops,

it has kept its village atmosphere and its charm. Most people think that Montmartre is just a cable-car ride up a hill to visit a big kitschy church and then take a walk around the main square to take a look at the local painters, portraitists and caricaturists, but it’s a lot more than that: exploring the neighborhood's cobbled and winding streets will bring you a total change of scenery!  

My way of showing you Montmartre is to bring you by cab/minibus/cable-car to the top of the hill. I will show you the Sacré-Coeur church and the square with the painters allright, but then I will take you on a one hour walk downhill with almost no steps where I will show you where Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Picasso, Modigliani and many others once lived and we will end up in front of the Moulin Rouge. Tempted? The pictures here below should see to that…