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Basilique du Sacré-Cœur
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Sacré-Cœur is a place of pilgrimage in more ways than one. Staircased, ivy-
clad streets slink up the hill of the fabled artists' neighbourhood of Mont-
martre to a funicular gliding up to the dove-white domes of Basilique du Sacré-
Cœur (Sacred Heart Basilica). The chapel-lined basilica - featuring the shimmering
apse mosaic
Christ in Majesty
- crowns the 130m-high Butte de Montmartre (Mont-
martre Hill). Its lofty position provides dizzying vistas across Paris from the ba-
silica's front steps and above all, from up inside its main dome.
Montmartre & Northern Paris
