Day 01
Explore Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Arrive in Paris, meet your guide, and begin the tour.
- Visit Père Lachaise Cemetery, the biggest and most visited cemetery in Paris.
- Enter through the Rue des Rondeaux entrance and discover the graves of some of the world's most beloved singers, philosophers, writers, musicians, and artists who are laid to rest in this 110-acre tree-lined cemetery, including:
- Oscar Wilde, the famous Irish poet.
- Victor Noir, the French journalist who was killed by a French emperor because of his opposition to the imperial regime.
- Allan Kardec, the French educator and writer.
- Gilbert Bécaud, a French singer, composer, pianist, and actor.
- Molière/La Fontaine. Molière, whose real name was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and world literature.
- Champollion, the French philologist who managed to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
- Jim Morrison, the singer of the American band The Doors.
- Géricault, the famous French painter known for his work The Raft of the Medusa.
- Chopin, the famous Polish composer and pianist.
- Héloïse and Abélard, the 12th-century philosopher and theologian and his student Héloïse, whose love story is known as one of history's best-known love tragedies.
- Explore the Père Lachaise Cemetery Chapelle and the Memorial Garden.
- Depart for your hotel after learning about the lives of these famous people.
