For the aesthete: So perfectly and carefully constructed, Sacre Coeur sits on Paris’s highest point, held up as surely one of it’s most lovely tributes to god. We’re supposed to find love with symmetry and here Sacre Coeur delivers, white, delicate and intricately matched columns, pillars and graceful (not over done) arches and three domes light up my eyes more than the heavy grand grey of more famous Notre Dame. Inside is one of the largest and surely, most beautiful, mosaics in the world.

For the historians: Built for Jesus’ Sacred Heart in the aftermath of the Paris revolts over the Franco-Prussian war in the 1870’s, the church is built of the spot where the uprisings took greatest force and where the army massacred many of the protestors but is supposedly a memorial to those who died in the war. Enjoy the quiet (except for the subtle splash of the fountains) gardens and climb the stairs for a peak out of the domed roof over all of Paris.