Père Lachaise Cemetery

On Saturday, 29 December, we decided to take the metro out to the Cemetery and wonder around.  This place is like nothing I have seen in the States; 110 acres of cemetery with over one million interments and several cobble-stone paths that allow people to walk the entire area.  The graves range from very basic small headstones all the way to massive monuments.  It is quiet inside the walls, you almost forget you are in a busy city.  It was a long day of walking, and not something every tourist plans to visit, but worth the trip for a quiet day.

Some families have small areas to enter, say a prayer, and leave flowers.  Usually there are entire families buried in this same spot.

Oliver Wilde's grave is a little over the top and was covered in lipstick kisses. Many have been sandblasted off and glass has now been put up, but people leave lipstick on the glass.

I love stained glass

The top of a fun grave

Seems to go on and on...

Grave cat

Chopin

Bats in the graveyard, good luck?

Jim Morrison

The metro stop outside the one entrance