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Painters' Square, Paris

Painter’s Square, officially Place du Tertre, is located just a few streets away from Montmartre's Basilica of the Sacré Coeur in Paris. Place du Tertre in Montmartre is now the most famous and touristic square in Paris according to many travel and official visitor sites. Painter’s Square is known for many local street artists (sometimes around 100) who not only sell their finished works, but you can see them busy working on new paintings right in front of you. In the past, Toulouse-Lautrec,...

Sacre Coeur (finally) a 'historic monument'

The most visible church in Paris, the Sacre Coeur Basilica that stands above Montmartre, has now been designated a "historic monument," no doubt to the surprise of many who assumed it already was. The new designation, given to “a building or space which has been classified or registered in order to protect it, because of its historical or artistic interest,” was turned down last year on the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune. The church's history , from its building in the late...

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