I don’t know what is about cemetery’s that fascinate me, I guess it’s a reminder of our mortality. The Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris (along with the Central Cemetery in Vienna is one of the most interesting cemeteries that I’ve explored. This was my second visit to PPère Lachaise.
Established in 1804, it is the largest cemetery in Paris and a notable resting place for many prominent figures.
Oscar Wilde (Irish playwright and poet)
Frédéric Chopin (Polish composer and pianist)
Édith Piaf (French singer)
Jim Morrison (lead singer of The Doors)
Marcel Proust (French novelist)
Honoré de Balzac (French writer)
Chopin is high on my list, since I am such a huge fan of his. His heart is interned in Warsaw, and here lies the rest of him, so now I am happy to have paid my respects to the whole of him.
Arman was an an artist that did unusual things with musical instruments, among other things.
Édith Piaf, and tragically her daughter Marcelle
An unusual grave, I would love to know the backstory
We found this lovely little footbridge crossing the canal, and if you looked down the canal you could see the water of the canal, going all the way from the Adriatic sea to the Aegina sea. While its only about 6km long, it reduces the shipping distance by over 300km. It was built in the 1880’s – before the Suez and Panama canals, although to be fair it is much shorter.
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