We are staying three blocks from the funicular. Is it safe ascending around dusk for sunset over Paris? And walking back to apartment after dark, Cloud free and warm in Paris this week.
Rick barely mentions Montmartre, any other suggestions for this neighborhood. This is the last 3 nights of our six week trip, and fourth trip to Paris, so just looking for low key ideas.
Paris is extremely safe from violent crime (and pickpocketing is ubiquitous and you are at greatest risk at the Louvre and Orsay for that). We have stayed in Montmartre many a time and we have friends who live near there and we often walk from there to Batignolles at night after dinner. Never been nervous. Paris is beautiful at night.
We don't wander around at 2 am but we often return to where we are staying in Butte aux Cailles or Batignolles late after an opera or visit with friends and it is beautiful. So we are often on the streets of Montmartre and elsewhere at midnight. Just the other day we had dinner in the 5th near the river and walked in front of Notre Dame -- front is lit up at night still while the back is still dark and then walked around to a metro at Pont Marie on the right bank to take the train to Butte Aux Cailles.
yadda yadda -- it is not unsafe to wander around at night taking in the scenery and lights. Montmartre is sort of tourist central these days along with the Marais.
Thanks. That’s what I was assuming but hubby thought it would not be good at night. It’s such a pleasure to be stay here!
...any other suggestions for this neighborhood
Karen, we enjoyed an interesting stroll around Montmartre Cemetery (Cimetière de Montmartre) very much.
https://parisjetaime.com/eng/culture/cimetiere-de-montmartre-p956
Cemetery map:
https://cdn.paris.fr/paris/2022/06/15/3e34e54fe886e92f7da4dbb710a7c527.pdf
Among others, look for:
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville: founder of New Orleans
Edgar Degas: artist
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault: of the Foucault pendulum
Vaslav Nijinsky: dancer
Hector Berlioz: composer
Aldophe Sax: inventor of the saxophone
A macabre bit of cemetery trivia is the tomb of Charles-Henri Sanson, who was the royal executioner during the reign of King Louis XVI, and High Executioner of the First French Republic. He was 4th in a line of family executioners, was first to use the guillotine, and performed nearly 3,000 executions, including the beheading of the king himself. His son, Henri, next in line of hereditary unpleasantness, was the executioner of Queen Marie-Antoinette and is also buried in Montemartre.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6754/charles-henri-sanson
The site of a former quarry, it also served as a mass grave during the Revolution.
Obviously this would be a daytime activity. :O)
