The largest in Paris, Pere-Laichaise is also one of the most famous and most visited cemeteries in the world; every year nearly three and a half million visitors come to discover the graves of famous men and women. Located in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, Pere Lachaise is both impressive and unique. Some form of poetry emerges in these 44 hectares of land, which is why major figures such as Musset, Colette, Oscar Wilde and Edith Piaf, not to mention Chopin and even Jim Morrison are buried there. Within the cemetery, art and nature come together: the English style garden welcomes all styles of funerary art, be it neo-Byzantine tombs, Haussmanian vaults, or to ancient mausoleums. In this diverse landscape a soothing harmony develops that invites meditation. This place, full of symbolic weight, still holds numerous events every year
