By a surface of 44 hectare, 12.000 trees, and more than 1,5 million graves, Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise is the biggest cemetery of Paris.
The attraction of this place consists in the partly pompous gravestones. This is also the reason that some people call Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise the most spectacular cemetery of Paris.
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Doors singer Jim Morrison found his last resting place there, but also former personalities like Edith Piaf, Baron Haussmann, Honore de Balzac, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, as well as Frederic Chopin are buried in Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise.
The cemetery can be found in Rue du Repos 16. Metro 2 and 3: Pere Lachaise.