Tourists visiting the Sacré-Coeur Basilica, the magnificent snow-white cathedral towering over northern Paris, tend to descend the Butte Montmartre the way they came up.
But once they’ve had enough, they’ll most likely make their way down the south side of the hill, following the path of the funicular toward the recognizable sights of central Paris.
This Paris exists mostly outside the gaze of tourists, the whopping 12.7 million people who visited the area this summer.
But they refuse to abide by the half-theme-park, half-museum ambience that prevails in much of central Paris.
Here, another Paris is alive and kicking.
Persons:
they’ve
Organizations:
Coeur Basilica
Locations:
Coeur, Paris, Montmartre, Belleville, Eastern, Southern Europe, Maghreb, China