Paris Père-Lachaise Cemetery Tour

In a small group of about 8 people, you will walk for about 2.5 hours through this cemetery, which receives about 3 million visitors a year. Your local guide will lead you through the cemetery and you will visit the most important tombs and pantheons. Artists such as Delacroix or Modigliani, the photographer Gerda Taro, the composer Bizet, the writers Molière, Marcel Proust and Oscar Wilde.... Even the father of cinema, Georges Méliès, all rest here.

You can also admire the many World War I and II memorials dedicated to the combatants, to those deported to the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau, and even to the Spaniards who died for freedom. An unconventional history lesson that will arouse the interest of the youngest members of the group.

Named after the royal confessor Françoise "père" La Chaise, whom King Louis XIV held in high esteem, it was the first cemetery in the world to be planned as a cemetery and park: during your walk you will enjoy its abundant vegetation, sculptures and spaces to sit and reflect.

The construction of this cemetery, inaugurated in 1804, was part of a sanitation plan that prohibited cemeteries in the city centre. Although it was not very popular at first (it only had 13 tombs in the year it opened), this changed when the remains of prominent French cultural figures began to be brought there: by 1830 it already had 30,000 tombs.

Today it covers an area of 43 hectares and has some 75,000 graves, as well as a columbarium with some 40,000 urns (this is also the first crematorium in France). The cemetery, which is mainly Catholic, has areas reserved for Jewish and Muslim burials.

A unique opportunity to pay your respects to some of your most admired artists and learn a little more about the history of France.