Cimetiére du Pére Lachaise, Paris

Advantages: Very unusual place, special atmosphere
Disadvantages: None

I don’t usually visit graveyards for a fun day out, but this was in the nature of a pilgrimage. I’ve always been fond of Edith Piaf’s songs, and after I’d read the biography written by her half sister, Simone, I felt I understood her to some extent. Her early years were deprived and full of abuse, her health was always poor, and you could see why she destroyed herself with booze, drugs and generally hard living, and why she treated the men in her ...
...but one forgives her a lot. I was to be in Paris for a few days, and I decided to visit her grave in Père Lachaise cemetery. You take the Metro to any of three stations : Père Lachaise, Gambetta or Philippe-Auguste, in east Paris. The Metro is easier to cope with than the London Underground, and if you plan to use it much you can buy a booklet of tickets, un carnet, to save money. The area is a bit rough according to the Parisians, with a large ... Read review

Advantages: It's free, it's educational, and it's a great place to meditate on the meaning of life.
Disadvantages: There lots of walking

Le Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris—Not just a place for the dead! I have visited Paris four or five times, but each time I go I make it a point to visit Le Pere Lachaise Cemetery. “Travel to Paris to go visit a cemetery”, you ask? Yes, this is one of the most unique and beautiful cemeteries I have ever seen. Unique not only for who is buried there, for there are many famous people entombed there, but for the quiet meditation one ...
...If man has tried to immortalize himself with monuments throughout history, then Pere Lachaise visually demonstrates that fact. It is a veritable city of the dead, with rows of streets lined with elaborate mausoleum “houses”, each unique with it’s wrought iron door and stained glass windows. To walk the streets of Pere Lachaise is like walking in some abandoned city of the well-to-do and famous. Some of the older tombs are showing ... Read review

Advantages: everything
Disadvantages: drugs and j morrison

it would be a pretty dull and morbid thing in england if you were to spend your days on holiday in cemetaries, but here it is an absolute must. the place is so quiet in comparison with the hecic life that goes on around it. inside you will see the graves of some very famous people - oscar wilde who was forced to flee england because of his conviction for homosexuality - his grave is now a shrine covered in lipstick kisses - the great mates of french ... Read review