Pere-Lachaise Cemetery

Pere-Lachaise Cemetery

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Area：Bastille/Paris-Gare de Lyon Genre： Popular Sights

Character： History and Culture

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Popular Sights

the largest cemetery in the city of Paris

Pere-Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris (44 hectares or 110 acres),though there are larger cemeteries in the city's suburbs.

Pere-Lachaise Cemetery is in the 20th arrondissement and is notable for being the first garden cemetery, as well as the first municipal cemetery. It is also the site of three World War I memorials.

The cemetery is on Boulevard de Ménilmontant (fr). The Paris Métro station Philippe Auguste on line 2 is next to the main entrance, while the station called Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, on both lines 2 and 3, is 500 metres away near a side entrance. Many tourists prefer the Gambetta station on line 3, as it allows them to enter near the tomb of Oscar Wilde and then walk downhill to visit the rest of the cemetery.

Burials

・Guillaume Apollinaire – French poet and art critic
・Yves Montand – film actor
・Édith Piaf – French singer
・Oscar Wilde – Irish novelist, poet and playwright
・Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – French painter
・Sarah Bernhardt – French stage and film actress
・Jim Morrison – American singer and songwriter with The Doors, author, and poet
・Frédéric Chopin – Polish composer.
・Georges-Pierre Seurat – French painter of A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
・Jacques-Louis David – Napoleon's court painter was exiled as a revolutionary after the Bourbons returned to the throne of France
・Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – French painter
・Honoré de Balzac – French novelist of the 19th century

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■Access:M②③Pere Lachaise　②Philippe Auguste　③Gambetta
■Address:16 Rue du Rapos 75020
■Tell:01 55 25 82 10
■Opening Hours:8:00～18:00