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Montmartre walking loops — Paris above the rooftops

The climb up to Sacre-Coeur earns you breathlessness and a view that explains why painters never left. Below the basilica's white domes, the neighborhood folds in on itself — steep staircases, small squares where accordion music drifts from a cafe doorway. The portrait artists in Place du Tertre are a tourist fixture now, but wander two blocks in any direction and you find shuttered windows, cat-watched alleys, and a stillness that feels almost rural for a hilltop in Paris.

3 routes from 1.5 to 3.6 km · 11–14 sights per loop