Montmartre, Sacre Coeur, and DALI

Montmartre reminded me heavily of Saint-Flour. The winding streets and sedate avenues where two could walk (mostly) away from the other tourists.

I could have curled up there for days.

But the reason we got up early that day was to see Sacre Coeur:

one of the most recently built basilicas in Paris. It was built as a sort of penance for the events of the Franco-Prussian war, and a group of monks and nuns serves here, perpetually observing the Blessed Sacrament. No pictures are allowed inside, and visitors are to remain completely silent. It was a much different experience than Notre Dame, which we'll post about soon, where the focus is firmly off of religion and onto the staggering history of the place.

Also in Montmartre: the DALI museum. We had to go, because it's, you know, Dali. Everybody's favorite mustachioed post-modernist! And quite the collection: