Famous Paris Graves: The Pére Lachaise Cemetery
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Pére Lachaise cemetery is home to some of the world’s most famous artists, from Jim Morrison to Oscar Wilde, Chopin, Edith Piaf, Delacroix and Géricault.
Located just minutes from the center of Paris, Pére Lachaise cemetery is surprisingly quiet, offering a beautiful and peaceful escape from the city.
With an expert, English-speaking guide and groups of only 25 people or fewer, your Paris cemetery tour will be intimate and your guide easy to interact with as they tell you the stories behind the headstones.
Join our Pére Lachaise Paris cemetery tour and explore the art, music, history and culture of the city, hearing about the characters that made Paris the city it is today. Located just a few minutes outside of central Paris, in the 20th arrondissement, it offers a rare slice of calm, with beautiful crypts dotted along tree-lined paths.
Join our expert, English-speaking guides on an exploration of this historic spot, hearing the stories behind the headstones. You’ll visit the grave of Jim Morrison and hear how this American musician (made famous as the lead singer of The Doors), ended up in an unmarked Paris grave. Of course it’s not unmarked anymore. Morrison’s grave has become a place of worship, attracting music fans from all over the world who come and leave their mark.
We’ll visit the grave of controversial Irish writer Oscar Wilde, whose monumental grave is covered in lipstick kisses. You’ll see the resting place of classical musician Chopin and visit the grave of Gertrude Stein, the famous American writer, who funded and supported artists like Picasso and writers like Hemingway.
As well as international icons, we’ll visit some of France’s most celebrated artists and writers. At the grave of Géricault you’ll see a reproduction of his famous painting, ‘The Raft of Medusa’ which hangs in the Louvre today, and hear the harrowing tale that inspired his masterpiece.
We’ll explore the writings and philosophies of Honoré de Balzac and Marcel Proust, discuss the off-beat humour of Molière and even visit the grave of George-Eugène Haussman, the architect responsible for Paris as you see it today. We’ll also pay homage to France’s darling singer Edith Piaf, the story of whose difficult life you won’t soon forget.
There’s a touch of the romantic about Pére Lachaise cemetery, with its quiet pathways and hidden nooks. Our Paris cemetery tour explores this when we visit the grave of Abelard and Heloise, France’s original Romeo and Juliet whose controversial love affair still sets tongues wagging today, almost a thousand years after their deaths.
Join us on our adventure through the artistic heart of Paris, stepping away from the busy streets to visit a time of art, literature and philosophy. With an expert, English-speaking guide to lead you through the maze, telling you the stories buried beneath your feet, you’ll get a glimpse of a different, more romantic city.
Amongst the most famous characters, you will find the graves of Balzac, Chopin, Delacroix, Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde.
For this tour, there is no dress code. However, we always recommend that our visitors wear comfortable shoes, as there is a fair amount of walking involved on the tour.
Because of the physicality of the venue we visit, we are unable to accommodate wheelchair users on our group tours.
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