The Place du Tertre
Best metro stations for Place du Tertre are:
Abbesses 6 mins walk 
Anvers
6 mins walk 
Buses: Nos.30.40 & 80
Here, folklore is in full swing, between the restaurant terraces and the easels of painters and portraitists who share 140 spaces, or 1 m² for two artists working alternately. But the historic village square is well worth a walkabout. At number 3, the commune of Montmartre had established its town hall in 1790; at number 19, sits that of the associative and festive free commune of Old Montmartre, founded in 1920. Another institution, the café Chez la mère Catherine where the word bistro "Quick!" was born in 1814. demanded by the Russian soldiers in a hurry to empty a glass before joining their ranks, "to drink" included the waitresses... Serene in the heart of the parade, the adjoining Saint-Pierre de Montmartre church hides the Romanesque remains of the Abbey Ladies.
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