Tickets
🎫 Guided tour: Pigalle, between places of pleasure and crime, with a guide
Practical Info
📅 Date and time: select your date and time directly in the booking
⏳ Duration: 2 hours
📍 Meeting point: Anvers metro exit, in front of the kiosk, facing 72 boulevard de Rochechouart, 75018 Paris
👤 Age: all ages welcome, but recommended for ages 15 and up
🇫🇷 Language: French
Description
Discover the not always glamorous legend of one of Paris’s most iconic neighbourhoods.
This tour takes you from Anvers to Place Blanche, exploring the legendary spots of Pigalle and Montmartre, amidst cabarets, music halls, artists, night owls, and figures from the shadowy underworld.
The route highlights the famous cabarets where numerous performers and chansonniers took the stage. While some music halls and venues still exist today, others have vanished. Through anecdotes, stories, and photographs, they come back to life during the tour, helping you understand how the Montmartre boulevards built their international fame.
Iconic venues from past and present will be revealed, along with the stories of famous personalities and anonymous characters who frequented the area. Beyond the charm of the hill, Montmartre and Pigalle have long been must-visit destinations for partygoers and night owls seeking entertainment, freedom, and excitement.
The tour will also explore the neighbourhood’s wilder past, once marked by the underworld, crime, and prostitution. You’ll discover how Pigalle became a favourite meeting place for figures from the criminal milieu and how this reputation helped forge the myth of the district.
The walk will end in front of the Moulin Rouge, with one last look at what remains today of the legend of Pigalle.
