in French 🇫🇷 and English 🇬🇧
Middle school, high school, adult groups
Highlights of this tour
- Discovery of the romantic sector and the classified sector of the Père Lachaise cemetery
- From Chopin to La Fontaine, discover many burials of famous artists and people
- A tour led by tour guides
Description
Follow your guide to discover unique funerary art, the hidden secrets of some of the occupants, or the superstitions and rituals that are still in effect.
With a total of more than 70,000 funeral plots, the Père Lachaise cemetery covers nearly 44 hectares, making it the largest in Paris itself.
You will discover the unusual death of President Felix Faure, the legend of the transfer of the bodies of Héloïse and Abelard or the strange will of Countess Demidoff still waiting for her suitor in her vault.
This tour focuses mainly on the romantic sector and the oldest and listed part of the cemetery.
You will discover the most mystical tomb of Père Lachaise or the unusual cult around the recumbent statue of the young journalist Victor Noir.
A visit that will make you rediscover Père Lachaise in an unusual way rich in many anecdotes.
Practical information
- Target audience : pre-teen, teen, adult
- Grade level : middle school, high school
- Meeting point : at the exit of the Père Lachaise Metro (exit Bd Ménilmontant)
- Duration : 1h30
- The district visited : the old sector and the romantic sector of Père Lachaise
- Distance travelled : about 2km
- Number of participants : max. 25 people per tour guide
- We are not limited in the number of participants per session. We can provide several tour guides in the same time slot
- Visiting hours : at 10 am, 12 pm, 3 pm and 5.30 pm from April to October / at 11 am and 2 pm from November to March
- Language : in French 🇫🇷 and English 🇬🇧