Bonjour
Tout le Monde!
May
18, 2016
Today I did the walk in Montmartre, which I was very excited
to do because I knew that it included the Sacré-Coeur. The walk started at the
Place des Abbesses and we made our way over to the Sacré-Coeur. After a quick
stop for shopping we took the Funiculaire, a tram of sorts, up to the base of
the beautiful Basilica.
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| The Funiculaire |
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| The Sacré-Coeur |
The Sacré-Coeur was built after the Franco-Prussian war of
1870. The French had many hardships and
failures in this war. Alexandre Legentil and Hubert Rohault de Fleury vowed to
build a church dedicated to the Sacred Heart “as reparation” for they held that
the misfortunes of France had spiritual rather than political causes. We paid six euros to go get a panoramic view from the
top of the Basilica, and it was so beautiful up there.
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| The panoramic view from the top |
After we stopped at the little église Saint-Pierre, one of
the hundreds of little churches that are found inside Paris.
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| Église Saint-Pierre |
We then walked through many cute roads in the Montmartre area
with adorable houses. We walked past a little vineyard and went to a small park
with the Statue of Saint-Denis.
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| Statue of Saint-Denis |
We stopped at a little square called the Place Emile Goudeau
and then continued on the walk.
We walked down the rue Lepic and saw the place where Van
Gogh lived.
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| Van Gogh's house |
At the very end of our walk we saw the infamous Moulin Rouge.
Overall, this walk was filled with many different cute streets and adorable
little houses. I loved being able to see the view of paris from the top of the
Basilica. It was a very nice walk but I would have enjoyed it quite a
bit more if it wasn’t pouring rain at the end.
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| The Moulin Rouge |
À Bientôt,
Claire
Hunsaker
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