Paris: Père Lachaise Cemetery Tour & Crepes with Guide

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Duration3h

GroupUp to 25

LanguagesEN · FR

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Where Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison & French History Rest in One Afternoon

You walk through Père Lachaise Cemetery with a guide who knows the stories behind the graves of Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Chopin, Édith Piaf and others. You visit the Wall of the Communards, learn why some bodies were moved and others feared being buried alive, and finish with a crepe at an authentic Parisian café. The guide handles the route and the history; you just show up with comfortable shoes.

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Père Lachaise Cemetery and Crepes

Discover Paris funeral history
Walk cemetery pathways
Visit Oscar Wilde's grave
See famous romanticism painter's grave
Visit famous French singer's grave
See Paris Commune execution wall
Visit Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas tomb
Learn about Oscar Wilde's reburial
See Victor Noir's tomb
Learn about Antoine Parmentier and potatoes
Visit Molière and Jean de La Fontaine tombs
See Marcel Marceau's tomb
Learn about Chopin's burial and heart urn
Visit Jim Morrison's grave
Enjoy crepe at Parisian creperie

The Experience

"You know, people come here thinking it's just graves," your guide will tell you as you step through the gates of Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. "But really, it's a story about who we decide to remember." The cemetery opened in 1804 and became the place where Paris buried its most famous—painters, composers, writers, revolutionaries—and the tour walks you through their lives by standing at their tombs. You'll see where Oscar Wilde ended up after his friends raised money to move him from a pauper's grave in Bagneaux, why Chopin had his heart removed before burial because he feared being buried alive, and how Jim Morrison chose to be buried here partly because his idol Wilde was already there.

The walk covers uneven ground—cobblestones, hills, stairs—so comfortable shoes matter. Your guide stops at the graves of Édith Piaf, the 20th-century singer whose voice defined working-class Paris; Eugène Delacroix, the Romantic painter whose "Liberty Leading the People" hangs in the Louvre; Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, whose 40-year partnership is marked on a single tombstone; and the Wall of the Communards, where over a hundred revolutionaries were executed in 1871. There's also Antoine Parmentier, who convinced the French to eat potatoes by making them seem forbidden, and Marcel Marceau, the mime who told stories without words. The stories pile up—some graves are real, some are symbolic, some are mysteries the guide will explain.

After the cemetery, the tour ends at a traditional Parisian crêperie where you choose between sweet or savory—ham, cheese, vegetarian, chocolate, or lemon. It's a small thing, but it's the kind of detail that makes the day feel complete instead of rushed. The whole experience runs about two to three hours with an expert guide who speaks English or French, and you don't have to figure out the cemetery map or worry about missing the famous graves.

What’s included

Fully guided walking tour with an expert, English or French-speaking guide.
entry to Père Lachaise Cemetery with no separate ticket needed.
visits to famous graves including Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Édith Piaf, Chopin, Eugène Delacroix, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Marcel Marceau, and the Wall of the Communards.
French crepe at a traditional Parisian café with a choice of sweet or savory options (ham, cheese, vegetarian, chocolate, or lemon).

Good to know

Easy physical levelPublic transport nearbyNot for back problems

Operated by LetzGo City Tours

Is this one for you?Right for anyone who wants Paris history without arranging cemetery entry or spending the afternoon lost in the grounds—the guide's stories and fixed route mean you see the graves that matter and understand why they're there, all in an afternoon.