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Montmartre offers numerous restaurants where you can eat out and satisfy your belly. For a delicious southwestern food as well as Ukrainian specialties like the beetroot sorbet starter, L’Assiette Restaurant at 78 rue Labat, 18 e is the perfect place. You will also enjoy the friendly atmosphere of the place along with the food. Le Restaurant is a fashionable but welcoming corner restaurant where you can expect to eat cuisines with some contemporary twists to classic French ingredients.
If you want to stay in a romantic setting, TimHotel Montmartre Paris is the ideal place. Set in a delightful chestnut tree square and the Wallace Fountain, perched on the slopes of Montmartre, next to the Bateau Lavoir of Picasso, it looks like a scene from picture postcard. You will enjoy the excellent service and congenial atmosphere of the hotel. It is well connected to transport links and locate near local attractions including Basilique du Sacre-Coeu, Place du Tertre, Bateau Lavoir, Moulin Rouge, Espace Dali and Funiculaire. Known for its warm hospitality to guests, Pavillon Villiers Etoile Hotel is the ultimate place for discerning travelers. It is situated in one of the most envious locations with close proximity to the most prestigious Boulevard, the Champs-Elysees, the Palais des Congress Convention Center at Porte Maillot, the Garnier Opera House, Printemps and Galeries Lafeyettes. You will get the value for your money as the hotel provides best service at reasonable price.
At Montmartre there are many attractions worth seeing. Sacre Coeur (“sacred heart”) Church is well known for its architectural style which is a blend of Roman and Byzantine influences. The church bell (in a tower behind the church) is one of the heaviest and weighs 19 tons. One can also find the statues of horses being ridden by Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc, a French peasant woman who led a rebellion against the English) and King Louis the Blessed. Visit L’Espace Salvador Dali Museum dedicated to the works of the surrealist artist Salvador Dali. Your visit to Montmartre is incomplete without stepping into the most famous cabaret theater, the Moulin Rouge (meaning “red windmill”).
Named after the martyr Saint Denis, the Bishop of Paris and the patron saint of France who was decapitated on the hill around 250 AD, Montmartre is a hill 130 meters high. It means ‘mountain of the martyr’ and is situated in the north of Paris in the 18th arrondissement, a part of the Right Bank, primarily known for the white-domed Basilica of the Sacre Coeur on its summit and as a nightclub district. Saint Pierre de Montmartre which claims to be the location at which the Jesuit order of priests was founded, is the other older church on the hill. Many artists including Salvador Dali, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh had studios or worked around the community of Montmartre.
If you are art lover, you can buy paintings at the Place du Tertre, the heart of the city’s elevated Montmartre quarter. Flea market at “Le marche aux puces de Saint-Ouen” is worth visiting offering large choices of old furnitures, old art pieces, clothes, shoes, porcelain, time pieces, military pieces. You may end up buying them as the prices are moderate to high. On Saturdays and Sundays you can come along with your family members and explore the market and buy furnishings and household objects from the early 1901s, Art Deco from the twenties and the thirties, weird things, kitch clothes, old textiles, chandeliers, paintings and prints, lace, worktables, dinner things, glasses, silverware, jewelry, African and Oriental art objects, small traditional tables, bathroom things, photos, cameras and phonographs, books, garden furnitures.
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