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Paris 18 Buttes-Montmartre, Paris — Area Guide & Where to Stay
The Sacré-Cœur crowns the hill of Montmartre, the 18th arrondissement on the Right Bank of northern Paris.
About Paris 18 Buttes-Montmartre
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Montmartre keeps its lodging on and around the hill, a steep quarter of the 18th arrondissement worth choosing for the village feel above the wider city. The streets nearest the Sacré-Cœur and Saint-Pierre de Montmartre hold the old artists' core, all cobbles, stairs, and small squares, with the basilica a short climb from the room. This is the base for the hill itself.
Below it the ground flattens toward the rest of Paris. The lower slopes of the arrondissement give a calmer, more level footing while keeping the summit close, and from here the Métro carries you fast across the Right Bank to the museums of central Paris. If you want the painters' Montmartre over the grand boulevards, stay high on the butte among its lanes.
Climb toward the dome. The hill and its stairs mark the ground worth staying on.
About Paris 18 Buttes-Montmartre
What are the main landmarks in Paris 18 Buttes-Montmartre?
Montmartre centres its landmarks on the summit of the hill, a tall butte on the Right Bank of northern Paris. The white-domed Sacré-Cœur stands over the whole 18th arrondissement, its dome showing from across the city, and steep lanes and stairs climb the slope to reach it. Beside the basilica sits the small Romanesque Saint-Pierre de Montmartre, one of the oldest churches of Paris, among the artists' squares long haunted by painters.
Great museums lie downhill. Beyond the butte, the Louvre Museum, the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée Rodin, and the Centre Georges Pompidou gather elsewhere across the city, with the Petit Palais and the Musée de l'Orangerie near the river.
What is the history of Paris 18 Buttes-Montmartre?
Montmartre grew on a hill that stood apart from Paris until the city spread out to take it in. The old village crowned its summit around Saint-Pierre de Montmartre, one of the oldest churches of the Right Bank, and windmills and vineyards once worked the slopes above the growing town. A village sat on the hill.
Paris climbed up to meet it in the nineteenth century. Drawn by cheap rooms and long views, painters filled the butte in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century, and the quarter became the artists' Montmartre of legend, while the great Sacré-Cœur rose slowly on the summit above them. The 18th arrondissement kept its nightclubs and studios through the years that followed.
The hill never lost its village grain. From vineyard slope to painters' quarter, Montmartre has stayed a place apart within Paris.
Where is Paris 18 Buttes-Montmartre?
Montmartre is a tall hill in northern Paris, the high ground of the 18th arrondissement on the Right Bank. The butte rises steep above the surrounding streets, one of the highest points in the city, its slopes falling away in stairs and winding lanes toward the flat quarters below. Stairs climb every side.
The dome of the Sacré-Cœur marks the summit for miles.
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Updated July 2026