Explore Paris in a truly original way with a 2-hour guided tour inside the most famous civic cemetery in the world. Opened in 1804 and designed by the neoclassical architect Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart as a vast English-style garden of over 40 hectares (the same size as the Vatican City State), Père Lachaise is a green microcosm in its own right, mirroring the history and society of the Ville Lumière.
Strolling along its tree-lined avenues, you will discover the rituals and legends that animate this place: from the love letters left at the medieval crypt of Héloïse and Abélard, to the lipstick kisses on Oscar Wilde's tomb, and the red roses for Édith Piaf. A place of strongly cosmopolitan character, the tour pays particular attention to its ties with Italy. We will set off from the monument to the Italian fallen of the Garibaldian Legion, before paying tribute to towering artists such as Amedeo Modigliani, Gioachino Rossini and Michel Petrucciani. The route also touches on great French history: we will remember the victims of the Shoah, visit the moving Mur des Fédérés and the tombs of Molière, La Fontaine and the photographer Nadar, before reaching the legendary grave of Jim Morrison and the tomb of Baron Haussmann, the man who reshaped the face of modern Paris.
