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Black Montmartre Walking Tour

By Antonia
Free cancellation available
Price is £26 per adult
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Overview

What do medieval winemaking nuns have to do with a 19-year-old Black American girl dancing in a banana skirt in Paris?

On this tour, we connect those dots, tracing how Montmartre came to be, and the larger global forces that drew Black Americans, Africans, and Caribbeans to this very special part of Paris.

On this walk, you’ll get:

A clear, engaging history of Montmartre beyond the usual stories

The chance to see the neighborhood’s major sites through a fresh lens

A local guide who knows how to avoid most of the crowds (and pigeons )

A deeper understanding of how movement and migration shape places, and why Montmartre became a crossroads for Black life and culture

Activity location

  • Le Clos Montmartre
    • Rue des Saules
    • 75018, Paris, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • 2 Pl. Constantin Pecqueur
    • 2 Place Constantin Pecqueur
    • 75018, Paris, Île-de-France, France

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Black Montmartre Walking Tour
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
£26.08 x 1 Adult£26.08
Total
Price is £26.08

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Tips on what else to see, eat and do in the area
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Tour is rain or shine (it rains often in Paris , but usually lightly)
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Guided by a local who cares about the area!
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Meals
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Service charge
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    We won't be entering Sacré Cœur, but will be taking in the views.
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    We won't be entering the Moulin Rouge

Know before you book

  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • There is some uphill walking
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a private individual (a party not acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Le Clos Montmartre

  • 10m
We begin at a small vineyard tucked among apartment buildings, a reminder that Montmartre was once covered in vines. The wine sold here set the stage for a community that would eventually welcome an extension of the Harlem Renaissance.

La Petite Maison Rose de Montmartre (Since 1920) (Pass by)

We pass one of Montmartre’s most photographed streets and buildings, a picture-perfect moment.

Eglise Saint-Pierre de Montmartre

  • 15m
One of the oldest churches in Paris, Saint-Pierre marks Montmartre as sacred ground and a site of pilgrimage for African and Caribbean seminaries in the early 1800s. For years, people from all over the world climbed this hill, tracing the steps of Montmartre’s legendary bishop.

Basilique du Sacre-Coeur de Montmartre

  • 15m
  • Admission ticket not included
We won’t enter the basilica, but we’ll unpack the tragic events that led to its construction and how they shaped Montmartre’s rebellious, outsider culture.

Place du Tertre

  • 10m
At Montmartre’s centre, where art and politics collide, we revisit post–World War I celebrations honouring Black soldiers, alongside a lesser-known and more troubling commemoration held in the square.

Le Bateau-Lavoir

  • 10m
  • Admission ticket not included
Best known as Picasso's studio, the Bateau-Lavoir gives us a moment to step beyond the famous names and look at the work of lesser-known Black artists who passed through Montmartre, artists shaped by the same precarity, and experimentation that defined the hill.

Le Moulin de la Galette (Pass by)

We pass by the Moulin de la Galette, once a windmill turned popular dance spot, where working-class Parisians, artists, and outsiders gathered.

Moulin Rouge

  • 5m
  • Admission ticket not included
In front of the Moulin Rouge, we see how Montmartre’s rebellious spirit spilled downhill into Pigalle’s looser nightlife, creating a rare space that welcomed Black performers.

Quartier Pigalle

  • 15m
We stop at the former site of Chez Josephine, where we unpack the performance that made Josephine Baker a star and how it clashed with the ideals of the Negritude movement.

Quartier Pigalle

  • 15m
We end at the former site of Le Grand Duc, a hugely popular jazz club and pillar of Paris’s Jazz Age. Here, we trace how that era came to an end and where Black communities in Paris took root afterwards.

Location

Activity location

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    Le Clos Montmartre
    • Rue des Saules
    • 75018, Paris, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    2 Pl. Constantin Pecqueur
    • 2 Place Constantin Pecqueur
    • 75018, Paris, Île-de-France, France

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