The panoramic view from Montmartre, at the front of the Sacre Coeur. Montmartre is located on the highest point in Paris, on a 130 metre high hill. To go even higher, you can climb the 300 steps to the dome of the Sacred Coeur basilica. The heights of Montmartre was the site of the revolutionary uprising of the 1871 Paris Commune. During the Franco-Prussian War (which France lost), the French army had stored a number of cannons in a park near the where the Basilica now stands. On 18 March 1871, the French army soldiers tried to remove these cannons but were blocked by the radicalised Paris National Guard, who established a revolutionary government that lasted only two months.
