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The Père Lachaise cemetery is named after King Louis XIV's confessor, Father François d'Aix de La Chaise. It is the most prestigious and most visited necropolis in Paris. Located in the 20e district of Paris, it extends over 44 hectares and has 70,000 funeral concessions. The design of the cemetery is a combination of an English garden and a place of recollection. All styles of funerary art are represented: Gothic tomb, Haussmanian pantheon, old-fashioned mausoleum ... On the green paths, the visitor will pass in front of the graves of renowned men and women: Honoré de Balzac, Guillaume Apollinaire, Frédéric Chopin , Colette, Jean-François Champollion, Jean de La Fontaine, Molière, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Jim Morrison, Alfred de Musset, Edith Piaf, Camille Pissarro, Oscar Wilde.
November 21, 2021
The largest green space in Paris, which has 69,000 graves.
An ideal place for a walk, very green and romantic.
Signs allow you to locate the graves of famous people (Piaf, Morrison, Delacroix ...)
May 13, 2021
The Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest intramural cemetery in Paris, the capital of France, and one of the most famous in the world. It is located at 16 Rue du Repos, in the 20th arrondissement, and has the peculiarity that many Parisians use it as if it were a park.
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November 14, 2021
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