• Portrait artists at work sketching visitors on the spot, so kids can watch a drawing take shape
• The funicular saves the climb from the foot of the hill to Sacré-Cœur, running daily from 6am to 12:45am
• Steep, cobbled streets all over the hilltop, so a stroller is hard going on the way up

Place du Tertre is the old village square at the top of Montmartre, a few streets from the Sacré-Cœur basilica. Painters set up easels here every day, and portrait artists sketch visitors, kids included, while families watch.

Picasso, Modigliani and Utrillo lived nearby in the early 1900s. The Montmartre funicular climbs from the foot of the hill to Sacré-Cœur, skipping the Rue Foyatier stairs.