Montmartre is a hill 130m hight in the north of Paris and primarily known for the white-domed Basilica of the Sacre Coeur on its summit and also as a nightclub district. The other, older, church on the hill is Saint Pierre de Montmartre, which claims to be the location at which the Jesuit order of priests was founded.
Many artists had studios or worked around this community of Montmartre such as Salvador Dali, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh.
Montmartre means "mountain of the martyr" and it owes its name to the martyrdom of Saint Denis, who was decapitated on the hill around 250 AD. Saint Denis was the Bishop of Paris and is the patron saint of France.
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