Many of the bucolic burial ground’s celebrated residents are still, according to local lore, making their presence felt ...

Did anyone die today?” This was a question Benoît Gallot, author of “The Secret Life of a Cemetery – The Wild Nature And ...

Le crématorium vieillissant du Père-Lachaise peine à faire face à une demande croissante. Le deuxième site, qui devait être ...

Père-Lachaise in Paris, whose tombs of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf and many other artistic icons have made it a popular tourist draw, has become a haven for wildlife, too. By Constant Méheut ...

Père Lachaise Cemetery draws three million visitors a year for a most unusual tourist attraction in the heart of Paris. Barry ...

In 1981, for the tenth anniversary of his death at the age of 27, a sculpture was installed on the grave of legendary American singer-poet Jim Morrison at Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. The ...

Ah, Paris. Some dream of the Eiffel Tower, some the Arc de Triomphe. Maybe you’re into Notre Dame, but probably less for its gothic architecture than the fact that it’s the Notre Dame, so you have to ...

A bust depicting Jim Morrison, made by artist Mladen Mikulin, was stolen in 1981. Paris police revealed they found the bust 37 years after it was taken from the singer's grave. Morrison died at age 27 ...

In May, Paris police announced the discovery of the long-missing statue, stolen from the Doors frontman’s resting place in 1988. But questions linger about who took it and why ...

Doctors work closely to death. Writers work with an eye to posterity. “I have always loved cemeteries and find them almost as irresistible as bookshops,” the doctor-writer Anthony Daniels observes in ...

A stone's throw from the Père-Lachaise cemetery, a creative coffee shop has taken up residence: the Créa'Café. Designed by ...