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9 Cemeteries in Paris That You Shouldn't Miss
Lingering over pain au chocolat in a sidewalk café, relaxing after a day of strolling along the Seine and marveling at icons like the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe… the perfect Paris experience combines leisure and liveliness with enough time to savor both an exquisite meal and exhibits at the Louvre. Awaken your spirit at Notre Dame, bargain hunt at the Marché aux Puces de Montreuil or for goodies at the Marché Biologique Raspail, then cap it all off with a risqué show at the Moulin Rouge.
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1. Pere-Lachaise Cemetery
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4.5 based on 6,629 reviews
This famous cemetery is the burial site of numerous French luminaries - authors, writers, musicians and more.
Reviewed By EileenMtShasta - Mount Shasta, United States
My visit was exponentially valuable thanks to Rick Steves audio guide (download available free online, do a search), which was an hour guided walk describing the history and directing us to the best known graves, like Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Edith Piaf, Chopin, Colette and of course Jim Morrison; as well as memorials to deaths in war, Nazi victims and plane crashes. Definitely I recommend doing this guided walk!
2. Cimetiere de Montmartre
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4.5 based on 648 reviews
This cemetery is the final resting place of Émile Zola, Edgar Degas, Alexandre Dumas as well as other artistic luminaries.
Reviewed By Companion58884013996
As part of our tour in Montparnasse we also decided to visit the cemetery. Really worth going there. At the entrance you either use the maps or download them to your cellphone. In the map there is a list of all the famous people who are buried there and the exact place of burial. Very easy and friendly to use. The cemetery itself is very beautiful . I felt very excited standing aside some of the great names which are part of the French history and had great influence all over the world.
3. Pictus Cemetery (Cimetiere de Picpus)
4. The Paris Catacombs
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4.0 based on 7,965 reviews
A genuine labyrinth in the heart of underground Paris, the Catacombs were fitted out in the galleries of former quarries. Twenty metres underground, the ossuary houses the remains of approximately six million Parisians, gradually transferred between the end of the 18th century and the mid 19th century, as the capital's cemeteries were closed for health reasons. Along a tangle of dark galleries, visitors discover a presentation of death with bones arranged in a romantic macabre decor. This unique site is a moving testimony to the history of Parisians and invites visitors on a timeless journey.
Reviewed By camillecR7410NM
Few queue because you have to book your visit online on this covid period. Very interesting and enriching because it is the history of Paris underground. Millions of skeleton fragments that are Parisians of the last centuries. Touching, a little morbid but not stressful. Visit to combine with a delicacy (handmade) with a real English Tea room really near : High Societhé (100 av denfert rochereau). So happy to sit and enjoy life again after such an amazing visit !
5. Montparnasse Cemetery (Cimetiere Montparnasse)
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4.0 based on 595 reviews
The tombs of Charles Baudelaire, Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir are located here.
Reviewed By debsywalker - Slough, United Kingdom
I do have a thing for graveyards, tombs and cemeteries. It's a slice of history taking time to read and also looking at the elaborate resting places. From the ordinary to the famous to the hero this cemetery has them all and for me, well worth the visit.
6. Cimetiere St-Vincent
7. Cimetiere de Passy
8. Cimetiere des Batignolles
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3.5 based on 11 reviews
9. Cimetiere du Calvaire
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4.0 based on 1 reviews
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