The Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre is immediately recognizable by its brilliant white travertine stone domes, which remain radiant against the sky due to a chemical reaction that keeps the surface clean. Perched at the top of the hill, this Romano-Byzantine basilica was conceived in the aftermath of the eighteen-seventy Franco-Prussian War and the subsequent civil unrest of the Paris Commune.
Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre
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