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Oscar Wilde’s tomb

Oscar Wilde's tomb is located in , Paris, France. It took nine to ten months to complete by the sculptor Jacob Epstein, with an accompanying plinth by Charles Holden and an inscription carved by Joseph Cribb.
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  • Type: Tomb
  • Description: tomb of Oscar Wilde
  • Also known as: “Oscar Wilde”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Père Lachaise Cemetery and Gambetta station.

Photo: Coyau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 , 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. is situated 290 metres west of Oscar Wilde’s tomb.

Metro station
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Gambetta is a station of the Paris Métro. It serves Line 3 and is the southern terminus of Line 3bis. It is located in the . is situated 350 metres north of Oscar Wilde’s tomb.

Park
Photo: Artvill, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a park, which is situated 200 metres east of Oscar Wilde’s 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.

Neighborhood
Photo: Jean-François Gornet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a neighborhood.

Oscar Wilde’s tomb

Latitude
48.8618° or 48° 51′ 43″ north
Longitude
2.39796° or 2° 23′ 53″ east
Open location code
8FW4V96X+P5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1915793689
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­tomb
Wiki­data ID
Q12432989
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Uzbek—“Oscar Wilde’s tomb” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Oskar Uayldın qəbri”
  • Belarusian: “магіла Оскара Ўайлда”
  • Catalan: “tomba d’Oscar Wilde”
  • Chinese: “奥斯卡·王尔德墓”
  • French: “tombe d’Oscar Wilde”
  • French: “Tombe d’Oscar Wilde”
  • Georgian: “ოსკარ უაილდის საფლავი”
  • German: “Oscar Wildes Grab”
  • Greek: “τάφος του Όσκαρ Ουάιλντ”
  • Hebrew: “קבר אוסקר ויילד”
  • Hungarian: “Oscar Wilde síremléke”
  • Indonesian: “Makam Oscar Wilde”
  • Irish: “tuama Oscar Wilde”
  • Italian: “tomba di Oscar Wilde”
  • Italian: “Tomba di Oscar Wilde”
  • Japanese: “オスカー・ワイルドの墓”
  • Maltese: “qabar ta‘ Oscar Wilde”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oscar Wildes gravsted”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “tuama Oscar Wilde”
  • Serbian: “Гроб Оскара Вајлда”
  • Slovenian: “grob Oscarja Wilda”
  • Spanish: “tumba de Oscar Wilde”
  • Spanish: “Tumba de Oscar Wilde”
  • Swedish: “Oscar Wildes grav”
  • Tagalog: “libingan ni Oscar Wilde”
  • Ukrainian: “Могила Оскара Вайлда”
  • Uzbek: “Oscar Wildning qabri”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Monument aux morts pour la France en Afrique du Nord de 1952 à 1962 and Monument to the victims of the Bazar de la Charité.

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