Montmartre has always been the Parisian neighborhood that most evokes the bohemian spirit. Some of the more famous people who called Montmartre home for a while include Salvador Dalí, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, and Toulouse-Lautrec, just to name a few. I love walking around Montmartre. Even though it is always packed with tourists, the artistic spirit of the neighborhood is strong. And of course the beautiful Sacre Coeur basilica is an ever-present jewel of a building that peeks above the rooftops and around the corners. As the title of this post implies, our walk around Momtmartre today was blisteringly cold and windy. Within 5 minutes of leaving the Metro station we had already popped into the Café des deux Moulins for hot chocolate and crêpes. This small café would not be anything special were it not made famous by the movie Amélie. We skipped a trip to the Sacre Coeur to instead check out the St-Pierre-de-Montmartre church, which is one of the oldest churches in the city, having been founded originally as a nunnery in 1134. The actual building has been significantly updated since that time, and is quite beautiful for its light and simplicity.
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