Rue de Ménilmontant

A special mention to Rue de Ménilmontant, a street in Paris is rather special for this city.
It is indeed one of the steepest streets of Paris. If you happen to have to go in the highest part of the street, or east to the outskirts of Paris, I advise you not to get off at Metro Ménilmontant otherwise you had to make a nice climb! Choose rather to catch up with the two bus lines, 96 and 26. ( MAP )

The Pere Lachaise Cemetery

Being able to "see" so many celebrity all at once is not as easy as Père Lachaise. Certainly not see in the flesh ... but you can be spiritually close to your myths.
Reach the most famous cemetery in France is easy, there is a Metro station that bears his name (lines 2 and 3) just 250 meters from the main entrance, and another Metro station (Philippe Auguste, line 2) to 100 meters from the entrance. By bus you can get directly to the main lines 61 and 69.

The numbers of this large monument:

• 44 hectares in size;
• 1804 years of official opening;
• 70,000 graves;
• 5,300 trees.

Admission is free and on entering the atmosphere is ... cemetery! :-O Who would have thought it? In reality it's very popular with people who go there just to walk in peace, and of course many tourists with maps and GPS to find the person buried here. So do not expect a real morgue ...
These tools are required not to get lost and find a safe way in all the graves of people you want to visit.
It 's a great place and if you take shortcuts between the graves do not be surprised if you are in areas quite gruesome (it's also easy to see open graves for the trees that have had the upper hand).
Among the most famous people buried here:

1. Guillaume APOLLINAIRE (poet);
2. Honoré de BALZAC (writer);
3. Maria CALLAS (vocals);
4. Luigi CHERUBINI (musician);
5. Frédéric CHOPIN (composer);
6. Auguste COMTE (philosopher);
7. Jacques Louis DAVID (painter);
8. Eugène DELACROIX (painter);
9. Max ERNST (painter);
10. Louis GAY-LUSSAC (scientist);
11. Georges HAUSSMANN (prefect of the Seine);
12. ELOISA e ABELARDO (legendary lovers);
13. Jean de LA FONTAINE (writer);
14. Amedeo MODIGLIANI (painter);
15. MOLIERE (writer, actor);
16. Gaspard MONGE (mathematics);
17. Jim MORRISON (vocals);
18. Edith PIAF (singer);
19. Marcel PROUST (writer);
20. Gioacchino ROSSINI (composer);
21. Oscar WILDE (writer).

Obviously, the most visited grave is that of ... Jim Morrison, always full of flowers and even surrounded by barricades.
The second most sought after is that instead of Oscar Wild, and I recommend it to carry lipstick with you when you go to visit because it is a must ... baciarla. kiss her. In fact you will find thousands of lipstick kisses scattered over the grave!