Montmartre Travel

Montmartre was and is one of the most picturesque and curious quarters of Paris. It stands on a limestone hill 425 feet high where, according to the legend, St Denis, the first bishop of Paris, was beheaded in about 250 A.D., along with the priests Eleutherius and Rusticus.

Because of its strategic position, dominating the whole of Paris, Montmartre has also had an important part in the city's political history. In fact the Commune began from an incident here in March 1871. Then throughout the 19th century Montmartre was the mecca of all the Bohemian artists and for a long time it maintained its place as the literary and artistic centre of the whole city.





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