Art Nouveau Metro

Abbesses Metro entrance with the Art Nouveau ironwork and glass roof. Originally many of the Metro entrances looked like this, now only one or two remain.

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Morning in Montmartre

June 8th 2006
By 1:30 pm when we returned to our apartment, we'd logged over 12,000 steps according to Cathleen's pedometer! Our doggies are tired! We went out early this morning - by about 7 am we were heading north on the Metro to the area of Paris called Montmartre. Montmartre (Martyrs' Butte) is the highest point in Paris and at the top of the hill is a white Byzantine-style church called Sacre Coeur (Sa ... read more

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