Where to stay · Hotel · € · 18e · Montmartre & Pigalle
Les Jardins de Montmartre
Thirty-eight rooms on rue Ordener by Jules Joffrin métro, on the working northern side of the butte away from the funicular crowds, decorated on a four-seasons theme with rooftop views from the upper floors.
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Climb to Sacré-Cœur from behind via rue du Mont-Cenis to dodge the tour groups; line 12 runs straight into the centre.
Getting there
- Jules Joffrin12270 m · 5 min walk
- Lamarck Caulaincourt12390 m · 7 min walk
- Simplon4490 m · 9 min walk
Walks that pass nearby
- Painters' Viewsstop 7 of 7 · 500 m
Renoir at Bal du moulin de la Galette
Renoir's 1876 painting of a Sunday-afternoon dance at the open-air ballroom of the Moulin de la Galette — dappled light, blue-and-white checked tablecloths, dancers, cake. The site, on Rue Cortot, is now part of the Musée de Montmartre; the actual ballroom courtyard survives.
Buy a museum ticket — it includes the Jardins Renoir (the gardens behind the museum, where the ballroom's courtyard was). Renoir lived in this exact building 1876–1877 while painting the work. The original is at the Musée d'Orsay.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Soul KitchenVegetarian café€ · 8 minA small café-canteen below the Montmartre steps, run by a trio of cooks who rewrite the menu every morning around organic, local produce. Lunch is a fixed plate, always with a vegetarian and a gluten-free option, finished with homemade cakes.
- Caulaincourt MontmartreBoutique hostel€ · 10 minSet by the Lamarck-Caulaincourt steps on the quiet north flank of the butte, with a terrace that looks out over Montmartre's staircases rather than its crowds. French breakfast included.
- Musée de Montmartre — Jardins RenoirLocal museum & artist studio€€ · 11 minThe oldest house on the Butte, where Renoir painted the 'Bal du Moulin de la Galette' in the garden and where Valadon and Utrillo later kept a studio-apartment, now restored. The terraced Renoir gardens look straight down onto the Clos Montmartre vineyard.
- La REcyclerieEco arts space€ · 11 minA former Petite Ceinture station turned eco-hub, with an urban farm, a repair workshop and a canteen on the old platform — and hundreds of cheap or free events a year.
The district · 18e
Montmartre & Pigalle — The butteSacré-Cœur and the artists' square up top; the back-streets of Abbesses and Lamarck below; Pigalle's neon and the Saint-Ouen flea market at the edge. Steep, photogenic, and busiest where the tour groups cluster.
Best for: View-chasers and night-owls who'll climb for it; pick the quieter north side.
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