Day 13: Sacre Coeur, Montmartre Cemetery

Today we took the Metro to Sacre Coeur, a church built in the early 1900s on the highest point in the city.  Interestingly, no pictures were allowed inside Sacre Coeur (not that it stopped idiot tourists who tried anyway, and were very indignant when they were thrown out of the church by the guards), even though they are allowed in places like Notre Dame and the Louvre.

This is the view from in front of Sacre Coeur: 

Here is the church:

A nearby street scene (the whole area is quite hilly):

We next walked down the hill to the Montmartre Cemetery, which is hundreds of years old.  Here lies many famous people, including Berlioz, Offenbach, Dumas, and Degas.  Famous ones were definitely well-kept.  Some looked so dilapidated that they would scare even the ghosts away.  Some were simple granite slabs, while others looked like a miniature church, complete with steeples and stained glass windows!  One thing that seemed a little odd is that there's a major road built right over the middle of the cemetery, as you can see in the picture below, the girders at the top of the picture are the road.

See if you can spot the cats in the next three photos:

Cat lovers are the same everywhere..  :-)  (Yes, and it's not Isako or Matt in the photo feeding the cat!)