Saturday, February 27, 2016

EUROPE SEPTEMBER 2015- PARIS

Montmartre, the large hill overlooking Paris, home to many famous artists and their studios since the beginning of the 20th century.
Sacre-Couer (Sacred Heart) Basilica, construction began in 1875 and finished in 1914


 Location of Pablo Picasso's studio

 Le Moulin du Radet (behind the tree), built in 1717 and restored in 1760, is one of thirty windmills that stood on the Montmartre hill. It now marks the location of a restaurant named after the only other survivjng windmill in Montmartre, Le Moulin de la Galette.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's House

Vincent van Gogh's House


Moulin Rouge, the Red Windmill, was the birthplace of the French can-can, burning down in 1915. It was made famous most recently by the movie bearing the same name.
 On Boulevard de Clichy, not far from Moulin Rouge, is the sex shop strip.


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