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Père Lachaise Cemetery Tour: Famous Graves and History
4.6
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Paris
Embark on a small-group stroll through the romantic and enigmatic Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. With a limited group size of no more than 25 individuals, you can expect a personalized experience guided by a well-versed tour leader.
Embark on a small-group stroll through the romantic and enigmatic Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. With a limited group size of no more than 25 individuals, you can expect a personalized experience guided by a well-versed tour leader.
Duration:
2 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Pere-Lachaise Cemetery - Your rendez-vous with Paris’ famous dead begins in the morning at Alexandre Dumas metro station. Meet your english-speaking guide and stroll into Père Lachaise Cemetery, the city’s most visited graveyard. Spanning 110 acres (44 hectares), this cemetery houses hundreds of thousands of the city’s famous and infamous dead in…
- Pere-Lachaise Cemetery - Your rendez-vous with Paris’ famous dead begins in the morning at Alexandre Dumas metro station. Meet your english-speaking guide and stroll into Père Lachaise Cemetery, the city’s most visited graveyard. Spanning 110 acres (44 hectares), this cemetery houses hundreds of thousands of the city’s famous and infamous dead in tombs of varying extravagance.
Hear about some of the site’s famous artists, musicians and writers that rest here such as Edith Piaf, Molière, Chopin, Proust, Delacroix, Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde. Wander through the labyrinth of graves and along stony paths to visit tombs accented in eccentricity and distinction. As you experience the haunting magnificence of the cemetery, you’ll learn tragic histories of lovers like Heloïse and Abelard
- united in a single tomb in the 1817 after centuries apart - and forward-thinking women like writers Gertrude Stein and Collette. Your 2-hour tour concludes at Porte du Rèpos near the Philippe Auguste metro stop.
What's Included
- Local English-speaking guide
- Visit famous graves like Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, and Chopin
- Explore Père Lachaise Cemetery on a walking tour
- Local English-speaking guide
- Visit famous graves like Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, and Chopin
- Explore Père Lachaise Cemetery on a walking tour
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks, unless specified
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks, unless specified
- Gratuities
Additional Information
- Please note tour runs only in English
- Please note tour runs only in English
Location
Alexandre Dumas
Meet at the exit of the metro stop Alexandre Dumas, on Line 2. Your guide will be waiting at the exit with a sign – there is only one metro exit at this stop.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Robyn_g
Oct 30, 2025
The best way to visit Pere Lachaise - Excellent tour Great value and advantageous way to find those hard to find graves. Victoire our guide was great fun and showed depth of knowledge about the history of the cemetery. She loves her job and makes the tour even more enjoyable Highly recommend this tour
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640lanif
Oct 27, 2025
Wonderful tour - Our tour guide was very accommodating and thoughtful. She shared a wonderful history of the cemetery and made sure we saw the essential sites.
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Linda_s
Oct 27, 2025
Two hours iin a packed graveyard. - On a chilly morning we were warmly greeted by Dee. She gathered our group of 20 and took us on. a 2 hour tour with interesting stops and stories. Very knowledgeable and articulate. .
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Bethrj9880lq
Oct 24, 2025
Beautiful Tour - Very worthwhile tour for the price. The cemetery in autumn was enchanting. Riti was an excellent guide. I especially enjoyed the grave of Abelard and Heloise.
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Rupakbhattacharya
Oct 24, 2025
incredible experience! - This was such an incredible and informative tour. Riti was amazing with sharing her knowledge of the memorable graves and the history that comes with it .
I highly recommend this tour with her
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Nonnie_m
Oct 19, 2025
A quiet break and fascinating stories. - This was 2 hours very well spent! Sophia guided us through with interesting stories about famous graves. She’s an excellent guide! The cemetery is very peaceful and quite beautiful. Walking through with the autumn leaves falling was quite special and a lovely break from the crowds of other Paris attractions.
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Suninthesan
Oct 17, 2025
Must see - Impressively beautiful cemetery, Becky told in a fine way the stories behind the well-known and lesser-known graves. A nice place to walk through too, lots of greenery. Highly recommended!
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Michele_j
Oct 13, 2025
Tour guide was... - Tour guide was knowledgeable of the cemetery. She asked all attendees who they wanted to "visit" to ensure everyone saw their sites.
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979bruceb
Oct 26, 2025
Cemetery review - We left early on the tour, the history aspect of it jumped around and found it hard to understand and give context to the tour. Got unlucky with some surrounding noise which wasn’t the guides fault but could have moved position earlier. No issues with the guide but wasn’t the most interesting of tours and I love my history, so found it more enjoyable walking around by ourselves and using google.
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Queenkeigh
Oct 13, 2025
Awful Experience - This was a disaster. The directions included with the emailed tickets via a link sent us to a location 4 blocks from where we should have been. We called the tour operator and they texted a new link with correct directions. A second person also called us to tell us the tour would not wait (this while we are trying to locate a taxi). We arrived at 3 minutes after the tour start time. No one there. Then received a text saying you have the correct directions ( the ones that arrived after I called.) your problem. Really handled badly. And really disappointed.
I attempted to email the directions we received with the tickets. Guess what? No email address to be found.
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