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Montmartre Walking Tour with Saints, Scandals and Revolution

By Off the Map Paris Tours
Free cancellation available
The previous price was €15 and current price is €12 per adult
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  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h 30m
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Overview

Go beyond the crowded tourist routes and discover the hidden Montmartre that most visitors never see. We'll explore secret viewpoints, quiet squares, artists' haunts, and some of the most beautiful streets in Paris while uncovering the stories behind iconic landmarks like the Moulin Rouge, Sacré-Cœur, and Picasso's Bateau-Lavoir.

Along the way you'll meet cancan dancers, revolutionaries, struggling artists, a saint who carried his own head, a donkey hailed as a modern painter, and a performer famous for blowing out candles with his farts. Blending history, art, humour, and unforgettable characters, this tour reveals how Montmartre transformed itself from a rural village into the world's most legendary area. This is Montmartre off the map and beyond the postcards: stranger, funnier, and far more interesting than most people imagine.

Activity location

  • Moulin Rouge
    • 82 Boulevard de Clichy,
    • 75018, Paris, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Starbucks
    • 5 Place Blanche
    • 75009, Paris, Île-de-France, France

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Montmartre Walking Tour with Saints, Scandals and Revolution

  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 30 minutes2h 30m
    2h 30m
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
€15.00
€12.00 x 1 Adult€12.00
Total
The previous price was €15.00 and current price is €12.00
20% off

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Guided Outside Viewings- this tour takes place in public spaces accesible to all
  • Exclusions
    Tips are much appreciated and greeted with a smile!

Know before you book

    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
    • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
    • Montmartre is a hill and can be difficult for handicapped or unfit people.
    • This tour completely avoids the notiously difficult stairways of Montmartre in favour of a milder slope.
    • A moderate level of fitness is required
    • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
    • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Moulin Rouge

  • 15m
Stand before the world's most famous cabaret and discover how cheap wine, scandalous cancan dancers, Toulouse-Lautrec, and even a professional flatulist helped turn Montmartre into Paris's capital of nightlife. (This is an outside viewing)

Café des Deux Moulins

  • 5m
Step into the world of Amélie and explore how cinema transformed Montmartre into a modern fairy tale while preserving its quirky village charm.

Van Gogh's House

  • 10m
Visit the aparment where Vincent Van Gogh lived with his brother Theo and discover how one of history's most beloved painters was also a spectacularly difficult roommate. Learn how his bad behaviour sent him on an artistic adventure that would culminate in masterpieces, bitter arguments, crushing regrets, and eventually, one less ear. (This is an outside viewing)

Le Moulin Blute-Fin

  • 10m
See one of Montmartre's last surviving windmills and learn how a rural village of vineyards, mills, and gypsum mines became a magnet for artists and dreamers. Hear one of Montmartre´s most grisly stories featuring a war, some canons, and a bloody display featuring the blades of this very windmill.

Le Bateau-Lavoir

  • 10m
Stand where Picasso, Modigliani, and countless struggling artists lived in freezing poverty while reinventing modern art and changing the world forever. Learn how a combusting mix of tragdey, new romance, ambition, and bitter rivalry led to the explosion of modern art all at the site of this very building.

Moulin Radet

  • 10m
Discover the dance hall immortalised by Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec, where workers, artists, and aristocrats mixed beneath the windmills in Belle Époque Paris.

Le Passe-Muraille

  • 5m
Meet Montmartre's most unusual resident: a fictional man who could walk through walls, and explore the neighborhood's enduring love of imagination and whimsy.

Place Dalida

  • 10m
Hear the storey of Dalida, one of France's most beloved singers, whose glittering career and tragic life made her a lasting Montmartre legend. Learn the strange tradition of rubbing her bust for good luck—and why, considering Dalida's complicated fate in love and life, you may want to think twice about the kind of luck she might be able to offer.

Rue De L'abreuvoir

  • 10m
Stroll along the street often dubbed ¨the most charming lane in Paris,¨ framed by ivy-covered houses and the iconic pink café that inspired generations of painters and photographers. This lane was featured in the series ¨Emily in Paris.¨

La Maison Rose

  • 5m
Instagram famous before Instagram, see the iconic Pink House pictured in countless paintings of Montmartre. Have your own ¨Emily in Paris¨ recreation moment as you selfie your way into social media bliss.

Au Lapin Agile

  • 10m
Visit the legendary cabaret where Picasso, poets, anarchists, and pranksters gathered—and hear the storey of the famous art hoax that poked fun at the more absurd limits of Modern Art. (This is an outside viewing)

Le Clos Montmartre

  • 5m
Visit one of only two working vineyards in Paris. Discover Montmartre's winemaking past and the surprising survival of this village tradition. (This is an outside viewing)

Basilique du Sacre-Coeur de Montmartre

  • 15m
Start this stop with a view 99% of tourists will never see—a quiet corner where you can pause, reflect, and take in one of Paris's most iconic landmarks. Then uncover the dramatic storey of revolution, civil war, faith, and controversy behind the basilica. Finally, round the corner and enjoy one of the finest panoramas in the city, considered by most to be the best view of Paris.

Location

Activity location

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    Moulin Rouge
    • 82 Boulevard de Clichy,
    • 75018, Paris, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Starbucks
    • 5 Place Blanche
    • 75009, Paris, Île-de-France, France

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