Montmartre - Main Sights

Main Sights

• the Fête des vendanges of Montmartre, which assembles more than 350,000 people during the first October weekend, every year,
• the Place du Tertre, where various painters are painting tourists for pleasure (and also money),
• the Espace Dali, museum dedicated to several masterpieces of the surrealist artist,
• the Dalida house in rue d'Orchampt,
• the place Dalida,
• the place Pigalle and the Moulin Rouge in the south,
• the marché Saint-Pierre, area of the cloth sellers in the south-east,
• the working class districts taking in a lot of immigrated people: Barbès (Maghreb) in the south east, Château Rouge (black Africa) in the east,
• the boulevard de Rochechouart (metro stations: Anvers and Pigalle) for its concert halls (La Cigale, L'Elysée-Montmartre, Le Trianon, La Boule Noire) inspired from the 19th century cabarets,
• the cimetière de Montmartre,
• the famous and often sung rue Lepic with its Les Deux Moulins café, made famous around the world by Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain movie,
• the Erik Satie's house,
• the Musée de Montmartre,
• rue Saint-Vincent, the vigne de Montmartre, the most famous of the parisian vineyards (there are some others, in particular in the parc Georges Brassens in the 15ème arrondissement of Paris). Its wine is quite expensive ; the earnings are used to help social institutions. It is overhung by beautiful buildings from the 20s,
• Le Chat noir and the Lapin Agile cabarets whose clientele was mainly French artists in the beginning of the 20th century,
• the Moulin de la Galette,
• the funiculaire de Montmartre, a people lift, one can use instead of the stairs to ascend the butte Montmartre
• the place Émile-Goudeau, where the Bateau-Lavoir welcomes great painters,
• Place Jean-Marais