A cemetery as a tourist attraction? If any city can pull it off, it's Paris. Covering nearly 110 acres of the 20th arrondissement (district), the Père-Lachaise Cemetery is considered one of the most ...
Did anyone die today?” This was a question Benoît Gallot, author of “The Secret Life of a Cemetery – The Wild Nature And ...
Paris (AFP) – The Pere Lachaise in Paris, the most visited cemetery in the world thanks to celebrities buried there, is welcoming crowds back after years of Covid restrictions with a back-to-nature ...
Père-Lachaise is the celebrity cemetery - it has almost anyone French, talented and dead that you care to mention. Not even French, for that matter. Creed and nationality have never prevented entry: ...
It’s the worst problem a cemetery can possibly have: No one was dying to get in. In the early 1800s, Parisians were expiring just as they always had, felled by natural causes as well as ailments and ...
A bust of iconic rock singer Jim Morrison has been recovered nearly four decades after it was stolen from the Paris cemetery where he is buried. The sculpture from the grave at Pere Lachaise cemetery ...