Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Cost and Hours:
Free, Mon-Fri 8:00-18:00, Sat 8:30-18:00, Sun 9:00-18:00, closes
at 17:30 in winter, last entry 15 minutes before closing; two blocks from Mo: Gambetta
(not Mo: Père Lachaise) and two blocks from bus #69's last stop; tel. 01 55 25 82 10,
searchable map available at non-official website:
www.pere-lachaise.com
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Stroll along the hilltop of Butte Montmartre amid traces of the many people who've lived
hereovertheyears—monks stomping grapes(1200s),farmers grindinggraininwindmills
(1600s), dust-coated gypsum miners (1700s), Parisian liberals (1800s), Modernist painters
(1900s), and all the struggling artists, poets, dreamers, and drunkards who came here for
cheap rent, untaxed booze, rustic landscapes, and cabaret nightlife. In the jazzy 1920s, the
neighborhoodbecamethehauntofAmericanGIsandexpatAfricanAmericans.Todayit's
a youthful neighborhood in transition—both slightly seedy and extremely trendy.
