Père Lachaise Cemetery Tours and Tickets

There are plenty of ways to experience Père Lachaise Cemetery. Looking at ratings and reviews previously given by customers, these are the best tours available right now:

• Paris: Famous Graves of Pere Lachaise Cemetery Guided Tour

• Paris: Haunted Père Lachaise Cemetery Guided Tour

• 2.5-Hour Walking Tour of Père Lachaise Cemetery From Paris

• Private Père Lachaise Cemetery Walking Tour

• The Pere Lachaise Cemetery Private Tour

While it’s free to visit Père Lachaise on your own, there are plenty of affordable tours that make it easier to explore the vast cemetery—and navigate straight to its top historical highlights. Guided walking tours start at US$17 per person, while self-led tours with an audio guide begin at US$8.

Yes, Père Lachaise is worth visiting. As Paris' largest cemetery and one of the most-visited cemeteries on Earth, it's the final resting place of many luminaries, including everyone from Jim Morrison of the Doors to Oscar Wilde and Frédéric Chopin. The cemetery also functions as a tranquil green space, and its many foliage-lined paths make it a good place for a moment of contemplation amidst Paris' bustle. Explore on your own, or with a tour, to get more out of your visit.

Per one customer who booked the Paris: Famous Graves of Pere Lachaise Cemetery Guided Tour, "We had an excellent visit to the cemetery with our guide Sophia. Throughout the tour she was very knowledgeable and answered any questions that were asked. The cemetery is huge at 14 hectares, so you will only get to see a fraction of that, but at just over 2 hours, we saw plenty of famous graves and the stories behind them. I thoroughly recommend this tour as a starting block for any future visits, which we will definitely do when we next return to Paris."

The Père Lachaise Cemetery is one of the key burial places in the city of Paris. To take advantage of ample space on the city’s outskirts, Parisian officials organized many reburials of famous people here. This elevated its status and the cemetery soon became the burial ground of choice for notable figures.

The pianist Frédéric Chopin, poet and playwright Oscar Wilde, and The Doors’ lead singer Jim Morrison are some of the famous people buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Famous French people include author Marcel Proust and architect Charles Garnier, who designed the Paris Opera House.

Yes, guided tours of Père Lachaise Cemetery are available year-round. Walking tours and small-group tours often spend a couple of hours here, discovering the famous graves and hearing the stories behind the tombs. Other sightseeing options include haunted tours that focus on more macabre stories, and self-guided audio tours.

Yes, you can take photos inside Père Lachaise Cemetery. Some visitors come here for precisely that reason, often lining up to catch a snap in front of Jim Morrison’s grave. Oscar Wilde’s tomb is considered the most beautiful (and kissed), and its lipstick-covered wall is a quirky photo opportunity.

Grab a cemetery map when you enter, and plan a route before you start to walk. Private tours let you customize your experience, so you can head straight to the graves that interest you most. For the grave of Jim Morrison, follow the mostly American crowds.

Like all Paris attractions, Père Lachaise Cemetery is especially busy in the summer months. To avoid the worst crowds, the shoulder season months of May and September are quieter. Whatever month you visit, go earlier in the morning; the attraction is open from 8am and there are rarely lines to enter.

There are tons of fun things to do when you're done visiting Père Lachaise Cemetery. According to travelers, these are some of the top attractions in Paris:

• Eiffel Tower

• Louvre Museum

• Notre-Dame Cathedral

• Seine River

• Musée d'Orsay

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