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18th Arrondissement of Paris Nord is located on the right bank of the Seine. The second area is about 3 square miles (a band of six square kilometers). The population is 185,000 and the area live about seventy thousand jobs.

The distinctiveness of the Moulin Rouge (Moulin Rouge or wind) is the culmination of this historic center. It is world famous nightclubs or use the French term, cabaret. The Moulin Rouge was built in 1889 by the owner of the Olympia hall in Paris’s oldest music in the adjacent neighborhood ninth is located. You can not miss this building because of imitation red windmill on the roof. Josephine Baker, Frank Sinatra, Mistinguett, Edith Piaf, and many other famous artists regularly played the Moulin Rouge. The story goes that Elvis had his eye on a can-can dancer and never went to Paris without interruption at the Moulin Rouge.

The cabaret was certainly the most unusual stars Joseph Pujol, who performed under the name The Pétomane. His action was open to “sing” from a rather unexpected place. His “Songs included” the French national anthem, the Marseillaise, and a replica of the 1906th San Francisco earthquake Sigmund Freud said, I’m used to catch his act. Believe it or not, for many years has been the highest paid artist in France Pujol. A contemporary British actor dressed as superhero Mr. Methane has the same kind of thing, but to my knowledge, has not won the Moulin Rouge.
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This historic tavern, probably the birthplace of striptease was immortalized in the paintings of Toulouse Lautrec and to a lesser extent two films for the Best Picture Academy in 1952 – version with Jose Ferrer and Zsa Zsa Gabor-appointed 2001 version starring Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman.

Butte Montmartre is a hill about four hundred meters (one hundred thirty meters) high A little over a jump, skip and a jump from the Moulin Rouge. His height and natural beauty have attracted religious ceremonies since time immemorial. Montmartre is probably Druid ceremonies in the distant past. It once housed a temple to the god Roman war Mars. Saint-Denis, the Bishop of Paris and the patron saint of France, founded a church before he was martyred in the middle of the third century. to his church, the relatively unknown Saint Pierre Montmartre, says the birthplace of the Jesuit order of priests. You tend to be visiting another church Hill, features the Basilica of Sacre Coeur (Basilica of the Sacred Heart) below.

The neighborhood itself has been the site of the first uprising Commune of Paris in 1870-1871, and its former gypsum mines serve as markers for the graves of many followers of these French Revolution. The everything was very bloody, and Archbishop of Paris was one of the many martyrs. If Paris was rebuilt in the eighteenth century by Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann’s henchmen, the poor people of Paris have been driven out of downtown Montmartre and other areas of the periphery.

In the late nineteenth century to the end of World War Montmartre was home to artists and their communities. Among those who have hung their hats in Montmartre Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh. The list goes on and on. Years later, turned on the artistic center of Paris, and the world, Montmartre to Montparnasse in the south of Paris. In 1965, famous in his song “La Bohème from French popular singer-songwriter Charles Aznavour tells the story of a painter’s memory of his youth in Montmartre, has ceased to there is: I DO reconnais plus / Neither the walls nor the streets / That Have seen my kids / stair top UN / Wanted Workshop / Do nothing son survive DO / IN New Decor / Montmartre Seems sad / And the dead ARE Lilac (“I no longer acknowledge / Neither the walls nor the road / That my youth / At the top of a staircase seen / I for a studio / from scratch / In new décor / Montmartre seems sad eyes survive / And the lilacs are dead “).

more bohemian Montmartre. But what? While walking on the Place du Tertre you have no trouble finding artists, some are struggling. Many famous artists and other cultural figures such as Francois Truffaut and Jacques Offenbach in the Cemetery of Montmartre (Montmartre Cemetery) burial.

In 1873, the municipal council of Paris expropriated land on top of Montmartre for the construction of the basilica. The first stone was laid in 1875 and the church was opened for worship in 1891. The basilica was completed in 1914 and officially launched at the end of World War I. Go to the Dome for a spectacular panoramic view of Paris, located mainly in the upper South. The church and its surroundings have often played in movies, most recently, the film Amelie in 2001. You can get the cable car (gondola) up the hill.

Montmartre museum you will find the Musée de Montmartre, the house where the painter Maurice Utrillo lived and worked in a studio on the second floor. Some other well known artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir lived here. In 1990, his painting “Dance at Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre sold to local people for the U.S. dollar over 78 million. Maybe you want to Dali, a museum of the famous Spanish painter Dalí stop Salavdor. More extensive collections of his works are in Figueres, Spain and St. Petersburg, Florida. Another museum is the Erotic Museum near the section of Pigalle. Need a translation?

When we launched this series to life, we have promised, a vineyard in Paris. The fifteenth arrondissement in southern Paris is also home to a vineyard. But Montmartre Vineyard is more famous. local intellectuals, the vineyard planted in 1934. They have opted for an exhibition in the north (Paris is really hot, the temperature wiser?) Organized the first harvest and one year after planting, about three years too early. The ceremony was both the Chairman of the French Republic and the Minister Agriculture. With the exception of the years of World War II, every October, the grapes are picked and made wine in the cellar of the Mairie (City Hall). Local artists paint labels for the bottles , which sold in April at a charity auction. Another reason to visit Paris and Montmartre in the spring.

course do not want in Paris without sampling fine wines French and turn the food. Allow me a sample menu: Start with Foie Gras With Viognier Jelly (foie gras Viognier Jelly). For your second course enjoy Garlic and Herbs Wild Goat (kid to Garlic & Herb). And for dessert, treat yourself Granite apple and Calvados (Apple and Calvados Ice). Your Sommelier Paris (sommelier) is pleased to recommend the most appropriate wines to accompany each course. ” br />