This walk treats the tourists to the traditional spots they expect to see in Montmartre with the added benefit of seeing them also in relationship to Vincent's life.

Beginning at Rue Lepic (Place Blanche) and winding up at the top of the sacred hillside of Montmartre, they first pass Gustave Aurier's apartment, the critic who wrote extravagant analyses of Vincent's works while he was alive and whom Vincent gifted with one of his cypress paintings, past the apartment where Vincent and Theo lived for two tumultuous years, past Toulouse-Lautrec's nearby home and studio (a sometime friend and drinking buddy of Vincent's), past the Moulin de la Galette (made famous by Renoir's grand painting of Sunday afternoons spent dancing there) which Vincent himself painted so often and so arduously, past Vincent's eccentric doctor's house (he advised one of his patients to sit on her maid), past Sacré-Coeur, past Place du Tertre ... stopping at the Museum of Montmartre which at different times was a studio for both Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Vincent's good friend Émile Bernard, ending with two historical and charming spots still open to the public today: La Maison Rose (a café linked to Picasso and Gertrude Stein) and Au Lapin Agile (a cabaret frequented by Gauguin which has physically changed very little since that time).

By the end of the walk, the tourists definitely have experienced the magic and historical nature of Montmartre.

This is the Sacré-Coeur in Montmartre, seen with a webcam.