France - Paris - Cobbled avenue in Pere Lachaise cemetery

Wide cobbled avenue in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise) is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France (44 hectares (110 acres) though there are larger cemeteries in the city's suburbs. Père Lachaise is in the 20th arrondissement, and is reputed to be the world's most visited cemetery, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors annually to the graves of those who have enhanced French life over the past 200 years. It is also the site of three World War I memorials. Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise- or officially cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France (44 hectares (110 acres) containing the remains of a million French and foreign dead.

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Wide cobbled avenue in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise) is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France (44 hectares (110 acres) though there are larger cemeteries in the city's suburbs. Père Lachaise is in the 20th arrondissement, and is reputed to be the world's most visited cemetery, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors annually to the graves of those who have enhanced French life over the past 200 years. It is also the site of three World War I memorials. Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise- or officially cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France (44 hectares (110 acres) containing the remains of a million French and foreign dead.