Montmartre is a hill (the
butte Montmartre) which is 130 meters high, giving its name to the surrounding district, in the north of
Paris in the
18th arrondissement, a part of the
Right Bank. Montmartre is primarily known for the white-domed
Basilica of the Sacré Cœur on its summit and as a nightclub district. The other, older, church on the hill is
Saint Pierre de Montmartre, which claims to be the location at which the
Jesuit order of priests was founded. Many artists had studios or worked around the community of Montmartre such as
Salvador Dalí,
Amedeo Modigliani,
Claude Monet,
Pablo Picasso and
Vincent van Gogh. Montmartre is also the setting for several hit films. This site is served by
metro line 2 stations of
Anvers,
Pigalle and
Blanche and the
line 12 stations of Pigalle,
Abbesses,
Lamarck - Caulaincourt and
Jules Joffrin.
