How to get to which artists to find at the Père-Lachaise museum in Paris, the museum where Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison are buried among others.
Il Père-Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Paris and unmissable stop on a trip to the French capital.
Also known as Cimetière de l'Est or City of the Dead, it covers over 40 hectares and is located on the Boulevard de Ménilmontant, in the twentieth arrondissement of the city, in a quiet hilly area, accessible by metro. Inaugurated by Napoleon I at the beginning of the 800th century, it takes its name from Père François de la Chaise, Jesuit and confessor of Louis XIV and is famous all over the world for famous people who are buried there.
In fact, the cemetery houses the remains of famous people from history, art, poetry, music: among them Oscar Wilde, Delacroix, Molièr, Gioacchino Rossini, Maria Callas e Chopin. Moving around this huge civil cemetery is by no means easy; at the entrances there are facility maps, divided into numbered sectors to facilitate the visit of the many tourists who arrive every day.
The tree-lined avenues, and the unreal silence that reigns over the cemetery, give aromantic atmosphere, out of time. Walking among the monumental tombs, of undoubted historical and artistic interest, is one of the must for those arriving in the French city. In fact, among the statues, the tombs and the vegetation you can hear the unhappy love story between Eloisa and Abelardo or the sweet voice of Edith Piaf. You can stop in front of the funeral monument of Jim Morrison or that of Oscar Wilde, entirely covered with kisses and messages left by the many fans of his literature.
In the southern area of the cemetery then stands the Federated Wall, where in 1871 147 exponents of the Commune were shot, then buried in a mass grave on the spot, together with another thousand dead.
How to get:
16, rue du Repos 75020 Paris.
Metro: Philippe-Auguste, Père-Lachaise and Gambetta.
Bus: lines 60, 69, 102.
Winter time:
Monday / Friday: 8 - 17:30
Saturday: 8: 30 - 17: 30
Sundays and public holidays: 9 am - 17 pm
Summer hours:
Monday / Friday: 8 - 18
Saturday: 8:30 - 18
Sundays and public holidays: 9 am - 18 pm
