Small-group walking tour
Two hours on foot, downhill from the Gambetta gate to the boulevard, with about a dozen graves and the history that connects them.
- 2 hours
- Maximum 20 people
- €19 per person
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Two ways to walk it
Père Lachaise Cemetery tours
Both walks are led by a licensed guide-conférencier and both are built around the same idea: start at the top of the hill and let gravity do the work.
Entry is free
Père Lachaise is a public cemetery. You are paying for a guide, not for admission.
Twenty people maximum
Small enough that you can hear, ask questions and stop when you want to.
Licensed guides
Every walk is led by a holder of the French carte professionnelle de guide-conférencier.
Two hours
Downhill from the top gate. Everyone else does it the other way round.
Private tour
Your group, your guide, your route — built around the people you have actually come to see, at a pace that suits whoever is walking slowest.
- 2 to 3 hours, as you prefer
- Up to 20 people
- €219 per group
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Which one should you book?
If you have never been to Père Lachaise and want a proper introduction — the founding story, a dozen graves, and a sense of how the place is put together — book the small-group walk. It is cheaper, it runs to a fixed schedule, and the cap of twenty means you can still ask questions.
Book the private walk when you have a specific reason to be here. That usually means one of four things: a grave you have travelled for, a subject you want covered properly, a mobility limit that needs the route planned around it, or a family name you are trying to find. In those cases the group walk will disappoint you and we would rather say so now.
Either way, nobody needs to buy anything to enter the cemetery. Entry is free and there is no ticket, and if you would rather do it alone, our written two-hour route costs nothing either.
Not sure which walk fits?
Tell us how long you have, who you want to see and how far you can comfortably walk, and we will tell you honestly which of the two — if either — is worth your money.