Père Lachaise Cemetery
The largest cemetery in Paris, 44 hectares of cobbled lanes, old trees and carved tombs on a hillside in the east of the city. Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Édith Piaf and Jim Morrison are among those buried here.
- Where
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 48.8611, 2.3942
Get the Père Lachaise Cemetery stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Père Lachaise Cemetery. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Île-de-France volume with your photos and a note.
Near Père Lachaise Cemetery
Place des Vosges 2.2 km
The oldest planned square in Paris, laid out in the Marais in the early 17th century as the Place Royale. Matching red-brick houses with arcades enclose a garden of trees and fountains, and Victor Hugo once lived at number 6.
Musée Picasso 2.3 km
A museum in the Hôtel Salé, a 17th-century mansion in the Marais, devoted to Pablo Picasso. It holds more than 5,000 of his works, from paintings and sculpture to ceramics and notebooks, along with pieces from his own archive.
Le Marais 2.4 km
A historic district across the 3rd and 4th arrondissements of the Right Bank, once home to the aristocracy. Its narrow streets of old mansions now hold galleries, boutiques, falafel shops and some of the city's best small museums.
Île Saint-Louis 3.0 km
A quiet island of eleven hectares in the Seine, joined to both banks by four bridges and to the Île de la Cité by a footbridge. Its streets of 17th-century townhouses are known for their ice cream shops, Berthillon above all.
Passage Brady 3.1 km
An iron-and-glass covered arcade in the 10th arrondissement, built in 1828. Known as Little India, it is lined with Indian and Pakistani restaurants and spice shops, a corner of Paris that smells of curry leaves and cardamom.
Centre Pompidou 3.1 km
A building worn inside out, its pipes, ducts and escalators painted in bright colours on the outside, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. Locals call it Beaubourg, and it holds one of the largest collections of modern art in Europe.
Jardin des Plantes 3.2 km
The main botanical garden in France, founded in the 17th century as the royal garden of medicinal plants. Its grounds by the Seine hold glasshouses, a small zoo and the galleries of the Natural History Museum.
Notre-Dame de Paris 3.4 km
A medieval Gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, seat of the Archbishop of Paris. Its twin towers, flying buttresses and rose windows have watched over the Seine for more than eight centuries, and it reopened in 2024 after years of restoration.
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Questions
Where is Père Lachaise Cemetery?
Père Lachaise Cemetery is in Paris, Île-de-France, France. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Place des Vosges (2.2 km), Musée Picasso (2.3 km), Le Marais (2.4 km).
How do I get the Père Lachaise Cemetery stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Père Lachaise Cemetery and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Île-de-France volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Père Lachaise Cemetery before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Île-de-France volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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