Relaxation breaks to walk down Montmartre are always appreciated: it is usually at the end of the day after hours of walk, visits and shopping. Fortunately the relaxation breaks on the western side of the Montmartre hill that we recommend you to take are numerous and varied. You can even combine your return with our walk Musée-de-Montmartre to Pigalle which follows this route.

We have planned also 2 more self-guided walks to visit the entire Butte Montmartre. For each one, relaxation breaks at the shopkeepers, all along the walks or strolls are regularly distributed (See map juste below).

Map of the 3 walks on the Butte Montmartre already operational

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What is a Relaxation Break?

The “Relaxation Breaks” are Coffee Breaks, Restaurant Breaks, Shopping Breaks, that is to say everything that might interest you along a guided and commented walk, in addition to the Points of Interest that are the object of the walk.
This allows you to rest, taste or buy at recommended points noted with the quasi certainty of quality, without being swindled by an indelicate merchant (without making you). And since you are also on vacation, you can make the most of your time simply by mingling with the Parisians around the corner.

Relaxation breaks to walk down Montmartre: the rating of the shops

The shops we recommend in our list below are rated from 1 to 5 and we have eliminated from our lists the shops rated below 4.0 (with some exceptions of 3.2 or 3.5, to indicate the shops to be avoided). The merchants are rated by the tourists who preceded you on this route. The average is taken into account only with a sufficient number of appraisals (several tens), over a sufficiently long period (a few months to a year)

The merchants selected in the end represent less than 50% of the merchants present along the promenades. This means that following the indications of our lists allows you to escape, more often than not, the “tourist traps” that are regularly encountered in tourist places such as the Butte Montmartre.

Relaxation breaks on the “Museum of Montmartre to Pigalle by the western side of the Butte” walk

This post “Relaxing breaks on the Walk Museum of Montmartre to Pigalle by the western side of the Butte” is linked to the Walk Museum of Montmartre to Pigalle via Moulin-Rouge itinerary. We have listed the following useful shops: restaurants, pastry shops, perfumeries, pharmacies, souvenirs and gifts and some others.

For your information, we have also written a special post on the “Quartier de Montmartre” (URL) which shows the tourist richness of this district and the interest to stay there during your stay in Paris.

Map of the “Walk Museum of Montmartre to Pigalle via Moulin-Rouge” tour

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How the above map works – Information available on the relaxation breaks between the Montmartre Museum and Pigalle

• Click on “A propos – then Visualiser les données” (About – View Data). You will get a list of recommended merchants on the right side of the map, sorted by business type. “Fermer” (Close) is at the top right of the map.
• In addition, by clicking on any of the shop name in the list on the right, you will get its location on the map and information in a popup window.
• By clicking on + or – (or with the mouse wheel) you can enlarge or reduce the map.
• By clicking on the map and moving the cursor, you move the map
• By hovering over each marker you get the name of the merchant.
• By clicking on each marker you get a window with all the information about the shop, especially his address and phone number

List of recommended merchants on the “Walk Museum of Montmartre to Pigalle via Moulin-Rouge” tour, comments and quality scores

The list of shops below shows the merchants on the map, marked with a number. Additional information is the comments for each of them and the rating they received from the tourists who came before you.

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The other self-guided walks and relaxation breaks of VPBY (Visitingparisbyyourself)

We have planned 3 guided walks in Montmartre (URL) or see the map at the beginning of this post. The other two Montmartre walks are already done, still with the local merchants we recommend:

• Montmartre hill self-guided stroll on the top of Paris
• Walk Museum of Montmartre to Pigalle via Moulin-Rouge

Other strolls in Paris are also available or will be available soon:

• Walk Eiffel-Tower to Palais-de-Chaillot via Place d’IenaWalk Eiffel-Tower to Palais-de-Chaillot via Place d’Iena
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For those who want to stay in Montmartre: the list of hotels recommended by VPBY and visualized on maps

Please also note that if you wish to choose Montmartre for your stay in Paris, we have extended our search for the best to hotels located on or near the Montmartre Hill (URL).
But our objective does not stop only at Montmartre: the whole of Paris is (or will be) surveyed district by district, in order to let you know the best hotels in Paris at affordable prices.
On the other hand, our ambition is to guide you through beautiful, detailed and complete walks of the capital of France thanks to our Self-guided walks. (URL)