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Vaugirard Cemetery

Vaugirard Cemetery is a cemetery in Paris, located at 320 rue Lecourbe and occupying 1.5 hectares of land to the west of that street. It opened in 1787 and contains 2500 tombs and 95 trees from 17 different species, making it one of the oldest cemeteries still active in the city.
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  • Type: Cemetery
  • Description: cemetery located in Paris, in France
  • Also known as: “Cimetiere de Vaugirard”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lourmel station and Square Rosalind-Franklin.

Metro station
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Lourmel is a station on line 8 of the Paris Métro in the . It is named after the nearby rue de Lourmel, which in turn is named after General Frédéric Henri Le Normand de Lourmel, who was killed at the Battle of Inkerman where the Franco-British armies defeated the Russian armies under Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov during the Crimean War. is situated 190 metres west of Vaugirard Cemetery.

Park
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is a park, which is situated 170 metres northwest of Vaugirard Cemetery.

Park
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is a park, which is situated 240 metres southwest of Vaugirard Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Porte de Sèvres and 15th arrondissement.

Locality
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is a locality.

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The of is in the city's southwest on the Left Bank of the Seine. Quite up-market and quiet, it is the largest arrondissement by both area and population.

Quarter
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is a neighbourhood in southwestern , . It is a part of the of the city. There is currently a Boulevard de which runs along the North delimitation of the quartier, and a Rue de , a few kilometers North-East in the .

Vaugirard Cemetery

Latitude
48.83841° or 48° 50′ 18″ north
Longitude
2.28475° or 2° 17′ 5″ east
Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)
Inception
1798
Open location code
8FW4R7QM+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 14457720
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­cemetery
Geo­Names ID
6458564
Wiki­data ID
Q932782
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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Vaugirard Cemetery” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Важырар”
  • Belarusian: “Могілкі Важырар”
  • Czech: “Hřbitov Vaugirard”
  • Dutch: “Cimetière de Vaugirard”
  • Esperanto: “Cimetière de Vaugirard”
  • Esperanto: “Tombejo de Vaugirard”
  • French: “cimetière de Vaugirard”
  • French: “Cimetière de Vaugirard”
  • German: “Cimetière de Vaugirard”
  • Greek: “Κοιμητήριο του Βωζιράρ”
  • Hebrew: “בית הקברות ווז’יראר”
  • Italian: “cimitero di Vaugirard”
  • Italian: “Cimitero di Vaugirard”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cimetière de Vaugirard”
  • Russian: “Вожирар”
  • Russian: “кладбище Вожирар”
  • Spanish: “cementerio de Vaugirard”
  • Spanish: “Cementerio de Vaugirard”
  • Swedish: “Vaugirards kyrkogård”
  • Ukrainian: “кладовище Вожирар”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Vaugirard Cemetery”. Photo: Gede, CC BY-SA 3.0.