Pleasures and Crime in Pigalle

Tickets
🎫 Guided tour: Pigalle, between pleasure spots and crime with a guide

Infos
📅 Date & Time: Select your preferred date and time directly when booking your ticket
⏳Duration: 2h
📍 Meeting Point: Exit the Anvers metro in front of the kiosk, facing 72 Boulevard de Rochechouart, 75018 Paris
👤 Age Requirement: Accessible to all ages, but recommended from 15 years old
Language: English

Description

The not-always-glamorous legend of a mythical neighborhood. The tour will highlight the famous cabarets where many artists and songwriters once performed. While several music halls and concert venues still exist today, anecdotes and photos will bring vanished cabarets back to life and help explain why Montmartre and its boulevards enjoy worldwide fame.

From Anvers to Place Blanche, both past and present iconic spots will be revealed, along with stories about the many well-known and anonymous figures who frequented them. Beyond the charm of the hill, Montmartre was long a must-visit destination for partygoers and night owls in search of thrills.

The tour will also revisit the neighborhood’s more scandalous past, once a hub for the underworld and a key meeting place for criminals and prostitution. The walk will end in front of the Moulin Rouge, offering a moment to reflect on what remains today of the myth of Pigalle.