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Père Lachaise Cemetery

The 20th arrondissement of lies to the east of the centre and represents an old working-class area now in rapid transformation. The main drawing card here for tourists is the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, though, for travellers who are interested in music and culture, this relatively gritty area is probably going to be one of your main night-crawling areas.
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  • Opening hours:
    Monday—Friday: 8:00 AM—5:30 PM
    Saturday: 8:30 AM—5:30 PM
    Sunday: 9:00 AM—5:30 PM
  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: cemetery in Paris, France
  • Also known as: “Cimetiere du Pere-Lachaise”, “Cimetière du Père-Lachaise”, “Pere Lachaise”, “Père Lachaise”, “Pere Lachaise cemetery”, “Pere Lachaise Cemetery”, and “Père-Lachaise”
  • Address: 8 Boulevard de Ménilmontant, 75020

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Chapel of the Père-Lachaise Cemetery and Grave of Champcenetz.

Church
Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0.
is a church.

Tomb
Photo: Pyb, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a tomb.

Tomb
Photo: Pyb, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a tomb.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include 20th arrondissement and Charonne quarter.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
The of lies to the east of the centre and represents an old working-class area now in rapid transformation. The main drawing card here for tourists is the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, though, for travellers who are interested in music and culture, this relatively gritty area is probably going to be one of your main night-crawling areas.

Suburb
The is an area of the 20th arrondissement of named after a former municipality in the area, which was merged into the city of Paris in 1860 by Napoleon III and split between , the Père-Lachaise quarter and Saint-Fargeau quarter.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
is a of , situated in the city's . It is roughly defined as the area north of the Père Lachaise Cemetery, south of , and between Avenue Jean-Aicard on the west and Rue Pelleport on the east.

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Latitude
48.86114° or 48° 51′ 40″ north
Longitude
2.39419° or 2° 23′ 39″ east
Elevation
93 metres (305 feet)
Open location code
8FW4V96V+FM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 13859706
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­cemetery
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6452891
Wiki­data ID
Q311
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Père Lachaise Cemetery” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Père-Lachaise-begraafplaas”
  • Arabic: “مقبرة بير لاشيز”
  • Armenian: “Պեր Լաշեզ”
  • Armenian: “Պեր–Լաշեզ”
  • Asturian: “Cementeriu de Père-Lachaise”
  • Azerbaijani: “Per-Laşez qəbiristanlığı”
  • Basque: “Père Lachaise hilerria”
  • Belarusian: “Пер-Лашэз”
  • Belarusian: “Пэр-Ляшэз”
  • Bengali: “সিমতিয়ের দু পের লাশেজ”
  • Bosnian: “Groblje Père-Lachaise”
  • Breton: “Bered Père-Lachaise”
  • Breton: “Cimetière de l’Est”
  • Breton: “Cimetière du Père-Lachaise”
  • Bulgarian: “Пер Лашез”
  • Catalan: “Cementiri de Père-Lachaise”
  • Catalan: “Cementiri del Père-Lachaise”
  • Central Kurdish: “گۆڕستانی پێر لاشێز”
  • Chinese: “拉雪兹神父公墓”
  • Chinese: “拉雪茲神父公墓”
  • Croatian: “Groblje Père-Lachaise”
  • Czech: “Hřbitov Père-Lachaise”
  • Czech: “Père Lachaise”
  • Czech: “Père-Lachaise”
  • Danish: “Cimetière du Père-Lachaise”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mezelgahê Père Lachaise”
  • Dutch: “Cimetiere du Pere-Lachaise”
  • Dutch: “Cimetière du Père-Lachaise”
  • Dutch: “Père Lachaise”
  • Dutch: “Père-Lachaise”
  • Esperanto: “Tombejo Père-Lachaise”
  • Estonian: “Père-Lachaise’i kalmistu”
  • Finnish: “Père-Lachaise”
  • Finnish: “Père-Lachaisen hautausmaa”
  • French: “cimetière de l’Est”
  • French: “Cimetière de l’Est”
  • French: “cimetière du Père Lachaise”
  • French: “Cimetière du Père Lachaise”
  • French: “cimetière du Père-Lachaise”
  • French: “Cimetière du Père-Lachaise”
  • French: “Père Lachaise”
  • French: “Père-Lachaise‎”
  • Galician: “Cemiterio do Père-Lachaise”
  • Georgian: “პერ-ლაშეზის სასაფლაო”
  • German: “Cimetière du Père-Lachaise”
  • German: “Père Lachaise”
  • German: “Père-Lachaise”
  • Greek: “Κοιμητήριο του Περ-Λασαίζ”
  • Greek: “Περ-Λασαίζ”
  • Hebrew: “בית הקברות פר לשז”
  • Hebrew: “פר לשאז”
  • Hebrew: “פר לשז”
  • Hungarian: “Père-Lachaise temető”
  • Indonesian: “Pemakaman Père-Lachaise”
  • Irish: “Reilig Père-Lachaise”
  • Italian: “cimitero del Père-Lachaise”
  • Italian: “cimitero di Père-Lachaise”
  • Italian: “Cimitero di Père-Lachaise”
  • Italian: “cimitero monumentale di Père-Lachaise”
  • Italian: “Père-Lachaise”
  • Japanese: “ペール・ラシェーズ墓地”
  • Javanese: “Kuburan Père-Lachaise”
  • Korean: “페르 라셰즈 묘지”
  • Kurdish: “goristana Père-Lachaise”
  • Kurdish: “Goristana Père-Lachaise”
  • Latin: “Coemeterium Patris Chaizii”
  • Latin: “Coemeterium Père Lachaise”
  • Latvian: “Perlašēza kapsēta”
  • Lithuanian: “Per Lašezas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Père Lachaise-Kierfecht”
  • Macedonian: “Пер Лашез”
  • Malay: “Kubur Père Lachaise”
  • Maltese: “Iċ-Ċimiterju Père Lachaise”
  • Manx: “Cimetière du Père-Lachaise”
  • Manx: “Ruillick Père Lachaise”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cimetiére du Père Lachaise”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Père Lachaise”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Père Lachaise”
  • Norwegian: “Cimetière du Père Lachaise”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cementèri del Paire Lachaise”
  • Ossetian: “Пер-Лашез”
  • Persian: “گورستان پر-لاشز”
  • Piemontese: “Simiteri ‘d Père-Lachaise”
  • Piemontese: “Simiteri ’d Père-Lachaise”
  • Piemontese: “Simiteri’d Père-Lachaise”
  • Polish: “Cmentarz Père-Lachaise”
  • Polish: “Père Lachaise”
  • Polish: “Père-Lachaise”
  • Portuguese: “cemitério do Père-Lachaise”
  • Portuguese: “Cemitério do Père-Lachaise”
  • Portuguese: “Cimetière du Père Lachaise”
  • Portuguese: “Père Lachaise”
  • Portuguese: “Père-Lachaise”
  • Romanian: “Cimitirul Père-Lachaise”
  • Russian: “Пер-Лашез”
  • Scots: “Père Lachaise Cemetery”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “cladh Père Lachaise”
  • Serbian: “Пер Лашез”
  • Sicilian: “Campusantu dû Père-Lachaise”
  • Slovak: “Cimetière du Père-Lachaise”
  • Slovak: “Père Lachaise”
  • Slovak: “Père-Lachaise”
  • Slovenian: “cimetière du Père-Lachaise”
  • Slovenian: “pokopališče Père-Lachaise”
  • Slovenian: “Pokopališče Père-Lachaise”
  • Spanish: “Cementerio del Père Lachaise”
  • Spanish: “cementerio del Père-Lachaise”
  • Spanish: “Père Lachaise”
  • Spanish: “Pere-Lachaise”
  • Spanish: “Père-Lachaise”
  • Swedish: “Père-Lachaise”
  • Tagalog: “Sementeryo ng Père Lachaise”
  • Tamil: “பெர் லசெயிஸ் சுடுகாடு”
  • Turkish: “Père Lachaise Mezarlığı”
  • Ukrainian: “Пер-Лашез”
  • Urdu: “پیئغ لاشئیز قبرستان”
  • Vietnamese: “Nghĩa trang Père-Lachaise”
  • Vlaams: “Père-Lachaise”
  • Welsh: “Mynwent Père Lachaise, Paris”
  • Western Armenian: “Փէր Լաշէզ”
  • Western Frisian: “Père Lachaise”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉雪兹神父公墓”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉雪茲神父公墓”

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