Les Buttes: The most noted landmark of Montmartre, one of the most indelibly Parisian, was inserted into the landscape only in 1919: the Basilica of the Sacré Coeur (Sacred Heart), more fully, of the National Vow to the Sacred Heart, paid for by national subscription after the French defeat by the Prussians in 1870. The work began in 1876 but was delayed by the death of the architect, Paul Abadie, who took inspiration from the 12th-century five-domed Romanesque Church of Saint-Front in Perigueux, itself inspired either by Venetian or Byzantine churches. Alongside the monumental terraced stairway of the garden-planted Square Willette below the church entrance runs the only funicular railway in Paris.