View from Musée d´Orsay

Montmartre is one of the most charming neighborhoods in Paris.With its rolling hills of cobbled streets and uninhibited bohemian atmosphere, Montmartre attracted artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and Picasso during the Belle Époque.This neighborhood was a picturesque town with small farms, vineyards, and windmills, independent until 1860, when it became an arrondissement of Paris.At the end of the 19th century Montmartre became notorious for the cabarets and brothels that opened in the area, but artists such as Monet, Dalí, Picasso, van Gogh, Renoir and Degas moved here, attracted by a cheaper and more liberal cost of living, and they built an artistic community that helped shape the spirit of what Montmartre is today.