The Cimetière du Père Lachaise is the largest Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York A cemetery is a place (usually an enclosed area of land) in which dead bodies are buried. The term cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are the place where the final... cemetery in The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital city of France, as well as the capital of the Île-de-France région, whose territory encompasses Paris and its suburbs. The city of Paris proper is also a département, called Paris... Paris, and one of the most This is a list of famous cemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide. Please add as needed. Argentina La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires - burial site of Eva Perón, Juan Manuel Fangio Cementerio de la Chacarita in Buenos Aires, Argentina is the National Cemetery where Juan Peron... famous cemeteries in the world. Located in the 20th arrondissement, Pere-Lachaise Cemetery is reputed to be the most visited cemetery in the world, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors a year to the graves of the those who have enhanced French life over the past 200 years. It is also the location of five Great War memorials.

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The name has its origins in Père François de la Chaise ( Events The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan. Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland colony. Oslo is destroyed by fire. When rebuilt by Christian IV, it would be renamed Christiania. Claudio Monteverdi publishes Tancredi e Clorinda. Jean Louis Guez de Balzac publishes his Lettres. Bernardo... 1624 - Events January 12 - Two-month freezing period begins in France - The coast of the Atlantic and Seine River freeze, crops fail and at least 24.000 Parisians die February 2 - Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe June 27... 1709). He was the confessor of Louis XIV King of France and Navarre By Hyacinthe Rigaud (1701) Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638–September 1, 1715) reigned as King of France and King of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death. He was a minor when he inherited the Crown; he did not... Louis XIV, and lived in the The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. It was founded in 1534 by a group of University of Paris graduate students led by Iñigo Lopez de Loyola (Ignatius of Loyola). Foundation On August 15, 1534, Ignatius and six... Jesuit house rebuilt in Events March 11 – Chelsea hospital for soldiers is founded in England May 6 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles. First black slaves arrive in Germany Halleys comet makes an appearance, and is observed by Edmond Halley himself In Russia, half-brothers Ivan V and Peter... 1682 on the site of the chapel. The property, situated on the side of a hill from which the king, during the For the French feminist newspaper, see La Fronde. The Fronde (1648–1653) was a civil war in France, followed by the Franco-Spanish War with Spain (1653–1659). The word Fronde means sling and referred to the pelting of windows (belonging to supporters of Cardinal Mazarin), with stones... Fronde, watched skirmishing between the Condé is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: Condé, in the Indre département Condé-sur-lEscaut, in the Nord département Condé-sur-Ifs, in the Calvados département Condé-sur-Marne, in the... Condé and Henri de la Tour dAuvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, often referred to as Turenne (September 11, 1611 - July 27, 1675) was Marshal of France. The second son of Henri de La Tour dAuvergne, vicomte de Turenne, duc de Bouillon, sovereign prince of Sedan, by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter... Turenne, was bought by the city in 1804 and laid out by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, and later extended.

The cemetery was established by For other uses, see Napoleon (disambiguation). Portrait of Napoléon Bonaparte Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a general and ruler of the French Republic. He was a general of the French Revolution and became the effective ruler of France in 1799: he was First... Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804 is a leap year starting on Sunday. Events January January 1 - End of French rule in Haiti February February 14 - First Serbian Uprising began. February 15 - New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery February 16 - First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the... 1804, whereas cemeteries had been banned inside Paris in 1786 after the shutting down of the Cimetière des Innocents, on the fringe of Les Halles is an area of Paris, France, located in the 1er arrondissement. It is named for the large central wholesale marketplace, which was demolished in 1971, to be replaced with an underground modern shopping precinct, the Forum des Halles. It is notable in that the open air center area... Les Halles food market, on the grounds that it presented a health hazard. Several new cemeteries replaced all the Parisian ones, outside the precincts of the capital, in the early 19th century, Cimetière de Montmartre is a famous cemetery located at 37 Avenue Samson, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France. Montmartre cemetery Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786 on the fringe of Les Halles food market... Cimetière de Montmartre in the north, Le Père Lachaise in the east and The Cimetière du Montparnasse is a famous cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, France. It is in the 14ème arrondissement. Montparnasse cemetery Created from three farms in 1824, the Montparnasse cemetery was originally known as Le Cimetière du Sud. Cemeteries had been banned... Cimetière du Montparnasse in the south. At the heart of the city, and today, sitting in the shadow of the The Eiffel Tower (French: La tour Eiffel) is the most recognizable landmark in Paris and is known worldwide as a symbol of France. Named after its designer, Gustave Eiffel, it is a premier tourist destination, with over 5.5 million visitors per year. The name Eiffel is pronounced eye-full... Eiffel Tower, is The Cimetière de Passy is a famous cemetery located in 2, rue du Commandant Schœlsing, in the quarter of Passy in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. In the early 19th century, several new cemeteries replaced all the Parisian ones. Outside the precincts of the capital... Cimetière de Passy.

At the time the cemetery opened, it was seen as too far from the city and attracted very few interments. As such, the administrators devised a marketing strategy and with great fanfare, organized the transfer of the remains of Jean de La Fontaine (c. July 8, 1621 - April 13, 1695), French poet, was born at Château-Thierry in Champagne. His Fables of animals and everyday life took their inspiration from Aesop and Horace but they are masterworks of French literature. The first collection of 124 Fables Choisies appeared... La Fontaine and Molière, engraved frontispiece to his Works Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière ( January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673), was a French theatre writer, director and actor, one of the masters of comic satire. The son of a Parisian artisan, Poquelin lost his mother when... Molière, in 1804. Then, in another great spectacle in 1817, the purported remains of Pierre Abélard (in English, Peter Abelard) or Abailard ( 1079 – April 21, 1142) was a French scholastic philosopher. The story of his affair with Heloise has become legendary. Life Youth He was born in the little village of Pallet, about 10 miles east of Nantes, in Brittany, the... Pierre Abélard and Heloise is a girls name, carried by at least two notable women: Heloise the student of Abelard, born 1101 Heloise the columnist, born 1951 This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred... Héloïse were also transferred to the cemetery with their monument's canopy made from fragments of the abbey of Nogent-sur-Seine. All this marketing strategy resulted in a great many people clamoring to be buried with such famous citizens. Records show that within a few years, the cemetery went from a few dozen permanent residents to more than 33,000. Nowadays there are over 300,000 bodies buried in the cemetery, and many more in the Columbarium and ones that have been cremated.

In the grounds there is also the Communards' Wall (French Mur des Fédérés) against which 147 communards, the leaders of the Destruction of the Vendôme Column during the Paris Commune The term Paris Commune originally referred to the government of Paris during the French Revolution. However, the term more commonly refers to the socialist government that briefly ruled Paris from March 18 (more formally from March 26) to May 28... Paris Commune were shot on May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). There are 217 days remaining. Events 585 BC - A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from... May 28, 1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). Events January - April January 18 - The member-states of the North German Confederation unite into a single nation-state known as the German Empire. The King of Prussia is declared the first German Emperor as Wilhelm I of... 1871 after the fall of the commune.

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Many famous people are buried in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery. Some of them are:

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The grave of Frédéric Chopin

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Download high resolution version (600x819, 105 KB)The grave of Edith Piaf (1915-1963) in Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. Taken by Adrian Pingstone in July 2001 and released to the public domain. This image has been (or is hereby) released into the public domain by its creator, Arpingstone. This applies...

Download high resolution version (600x819, 105 KB)The grave of Edith Piaf (1915-1963) in Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. Taken by Adrian Pingstone in July 2001 and released to the public domain. This image has been (or is hereby) released into the public domain by its creator, Arpingstone. This applies...

The grave of Édith Piaf

• Cléo de Mérode (1874-1965), dancer
• Jules Michelet (August 21, 1798 - February 9, 1874) was a French historian. He was born at Paris, of a family with Huguenot traditions. His father was a master printer, not very prosperous, and Jules assisted him in the actual work of the press. A place was offered him in the... Jules Michelet (1798-1874), historian
• Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 _ January 24, 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor. Amedeo Modigliani He was born in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy, the fourth child of the Jewish family of Flaminio Modigliani and his French-born wife, Eugénie Garsin and was raised in poverty after his... Amedeo Modigliani, painter and sculptor
• Molière, engraved frontispiece to his Works Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière ( January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673), was a French theatre writer, director and actor, one of the masters of comic satire. The son of a Parisian artisan, Poquelin lost his mother when... Molière, Dramatist
• Gaspard Monge. Gaspard Monge (May 10, 1746 — July 28, 1818), was a French mathematician and inventor of descriptive geometry. He was born at Beaune. He was educated first at the college of the Oratorians at Beaune, and then in their college at Lyon - where, at sixteen, the year after... Gaspard Monge (1746-1818), mathematician - see Gaspard Monge's mausoleum
• Yves Montand (October 13, 1921 - November 9, 1991) was a French/Italian actor, born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Alto, Italy. Shortly after his birth, Montands family left Italy for France. (Later, when they applied for French citizenship, his father pretended that they did so in order to escape Mussolini... Yves Montand, actor
• Jim Morrison (December 8, 1943 - July 3, 1971) was a singer, songwriter and poet. Jim Morrison Born James Douglas Morrison in Melbourne, Florida, he was the lead singer and lyricist of the popular American rock band The Doors. He was also an author of several poetry books. James Douglas Morrison... Jim Morrison, American singer, songwriter, and poet
• Alfred Louis Charles de Musset, (December 11, 1810 - May 2, 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. De Musset was an important figure in the Romantic literary movement. He trained in both law and medicine, but his success was in literature. The tale of his celebrated love affair with... Alfred de Musset (1810-1857), writer
• Félix Nadar (1820-1910), photographer
• Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855), poet and translator
• Anne de Noailles, born November 1, 1876 (other sources say November 15) – died April 30, 1933, was a member of the exiled Romanian royalty and an accomplished writer. Anne de Noailles Born in Paris, France, Anna-Elisabeth Bibesco-Bassaraba, Princess of Brancovan, was the daughter of exiled Prince Brancovan... Anne de Noailles, writer
• Charles Nodier (April 29, 1780 - January 27, 1844), was a French author. He was born at Besançon. His father, on the outbreak of the French Revolution, was appointed mayor of Besançon and consequently chief police magistrate; he seems to have become an instrument of the tyranny of the... Charles Nodier, writer
• Jean Nohain (1900-1981), lyricist
• Legend has it that rubbing certain parts of this life-size statue atop Victor Noirs grave ensures a blissful sex life. Victor Noir, born July 30, 1848 - died January 10, 1870, was a French journalist. Born Yvan Salmon at Attigny, Ardennes, he went to Paris where he worked as... Victor Noir, journalist
• Pascale Ogier, born October 26, 1958 - died October 25, 1984, was a French actress. Pascale Ogier Born in Paris, France, she was the daughter of a musician and actress Bulle Ogier. Pascale Ogier too chose an acting career, first with appearances on stage. In 1982, she and her mother co... Pascale Ogier (1958-1984), French actress
• Max Ophüls (1902-1957), film director
• Patti as Marguerite in Faust, 1875. Adelina Patti (February 10, 1843 _ September 27, 1919) was one of the most highly regarded Opera singers of the 19th century. Giuseppe Verdi was not alone in calling her the greatest singer he ever heard. Patti was born Adela Juana Maria Patti to... Adelina Patti (1843-1919), opera singer
• Michel Petrucciani (December 28, 1962, Orange, France - January 6, 1999, Manhattan) overcame the effects of osteogenesis imperfecta (a bone disease that greatly stunted his growth and weakened his bones) to become a powerful jazz pianist. On his passing, Michel Petrucciani was interred in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris... Michel Petrucciani (1962-1999), jazz pianist
• Édith Piaf, France's most famous singer
• Christian Pineau, French resistance leader and statesman Christian Pineau (October 14, 1904 _ April 5, 1995) was a noted French Resistance fighter. He was born in Chaumont-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne, France and died in Paris. A World War II French Resistance leader and a close ally of Charles de... Christian Pineau, Resistance worker, statesman
• The garden at Pontoise, painted 1877. Camille Pissarro (July 10, 1830 - November 1903) was a French impressionist painter. Camille Pissarro was born on July 10, 1830 in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas (then part of the Danish West Indies, now part of the U.S. Virgin Islands) to Abraham Gabriel Pissarro... Camille Pissarro, "Father of Impressionism"
• Ignaz Pleyel (June 18, 1757–November 14, 1831) was an Austrian composer of the Classical music era. Life He was born in Ruppersthal in Lower Austria, the son of a schoolmaster named Martin Pleyl. While still young he probably studied with Vanhal, and from 1772 he became the pupil... Ignace Pleyel (1757-1831), composer
• Elvire Popesco (1894-1993), Romanian born actress

monument by jacob epstein on grave of oscar wilde in pere lachaise cemetery, cropped from photo by jack oppenheim File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. Click on date to download the file or see the image...

monument by jacob epstein on grave of oscar wilde in pere lachaise cemetery, cropped from photo by jack oppenheim File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. Click on date to download the file or see the image...

The grave of Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde ( October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. One of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day, known for his barbed and... Oscar Wilde

• Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (January 7, 1899 - January 30, 1963) was a French composer. Poulenc was born in Paris. His mother, an amateur pianist, taught him to play, and music formed a part of family life. As a young man, in 1918 he was fulfilling his National Military Service but... Francis Poulenc, composer, member of " Le Groupe des Six, 1922, by Jacques-Emile Blanche. In the center, pianist Marcelle Meyer; from bottom to top: Germaine Tailleferre, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Jean Wiéner; on the right: Georges Auric, Francis Poulenc, Jean Cocteau. Here pianist Jean Wiéner replaces Louis Durey who left the group in... Les Six"
• Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugène-Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922) was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu, also translated previously as Remembrance of Things Past). Biography Proust was born in... Marcel Proust, writer
• Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, painter
• Portrait of Mlle Rachel by William Etty, 1840s Rachel (18 February 1821 - 4 January 1858) was a French Jewish actress who was considered the greatest of her time. Born Élisa Félix in Mumpf, Aargau, Switzerland, the daughter of Alsatian peddlers, she earned money as a child singing in the... Mlle Rachel, (Élisabeth Rachel Félix) Swiss actress at Comédie-Française
• Robert Norbert Rillieux (March 18, 1806-October 8, 1894), an African-American inventor and engineer, was born the son of a wealthy, white New Orleans, Louisiana plantation owner and a former slave. At Norberts birth, his father had the choice of declaring him free or, as was the custom... Norbert Rillieux, inventor
• Georges Rodenbach, Symbolist poet and novelist
• Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 — November 13, 1868) was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best known works include Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), and Guillaume Tell William Tell (the overture of... Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer
• Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon (October 17, 1760 - May 19, 1825), the founder of French socialism, was born in Paris. He belonged to a younger branch of the family of the duc de Saint-Simon. His education was directed by DAlembert. At the age of nineteen... Claude de Saint-Simon, (1760-1825) economist
• Le Chahut was painted by Seurat from 1889 to 1890. Georges-Pierre Seurat (December 2, 1859–March 29, 1891) was the founder and the only great practitioner of the Neoimpressionism. His large work Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte has become one of the icons of... Georges Seurat, artist, founder:pointillist style of Post-Impressionism is a term applied to a number of painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries whose style developed out of or reacted against that of the Impressionists. It was first used by the critic Roger Fry, and is applied to the group Les Nabis and other... post-impressionist
• Simone Signoret (March 25, 1921 - September 30, 1985), was the pseudonym (after her mothers last name) of Simone Kaminker, a French actress. She was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1959 for her performance in Room at the Top. First married to... Simone Signoret, actress
• This article is about Sidney Smith, the English naval officer. For others with this name, see: Sidney Smith the Canadian academic and foreign minister. Sidney Smith (artist) See also Sydney Smith for a list of people by that name. Sir William Sidney Smith KBE,KCB (21st June, 1764 – 26th... Sir Sidney Smith, English admiral
• Alexandre Stavinsky, notorious embezzler
• Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946) was an American writer, poet, feminist, playwright, and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in France. Biography Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now the North Side of Pittsburgh), her family moved to Vienna and... Gertrude Stein, American writer
• Alice B. Toklas, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949 Alice Babette Toklas (April 30, 1877 _ March 7, 1967) was the lover of writer Gertrude Stein. She was born in San Francisco, California into a middle_class Jewish family and was educated at public schools and at the University of Seattle... Alice B. Toklas, American writer
• Maurice Tourneur, born February 2, 1873 – died August 4, 1961, was an important international film director and screenwriter. Maurice Tourneur Born Maurice Thomas in the Belleville district of Paris, France, his father was a jeweler. As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a... Maurice Tourneur, film director
• Marie Trintignant (January 21, 1962 - August 1, 2003) was a French actress. She was born in Boulogne-Billancourt the daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant and his second wife Nadine Marquand. When her younger sister died at the age of nine, Marie Trintignant became withdrawn and virtually stopped speaking. Throughout... Marie Trintignant, actress
• Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, The Dominican Republic is a Spanish-speaking representative democracy located on the eastern portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, bordering Haiti. A legacy of unsettled, mostly non-representative, rule for much of the 20th century — most notably the thirty-two year reign of the military leader Rafael Le... Dominican Dictator was the title of a magistrate in ancient Rome appointed by the Senate to rule the state in times of emergency. In modern usage, it refers to an absolutist or autocratic ruler who assumes sole power over the state (though the term is normally not applied to an absolute... dictator
• Jules Vallés (1832-1885), writer
• Charles Henry VerHuell, Dutch Admiral
• Marie, Countess Walewski (or Walewska) born Laczinska (1789 - 1817) wife of Count Athenasius Walewski, mistress of Napoleon I Bonaparte and mother of Alexandre Joseph Colonna, Count Walewski. Her parents were Count Mathieu Laczynski and Eva Zaborowska. Countess Marie Walewski In 1807 in Warsaw Napoleon fell in love with a Polish... Marie Walewska (1789-1817), Napoleon's mistress (her heart only; her other remains were returned to her native Poland)
• Alexandre Florian Joseph Colonna, Comte Walewski (May 4, 1810 - October 27, French politician and diplomat, was born at Walewice near Warsaw, the son of Napoleon I and his mistress Marie, Countess Walewski. Alexandre Walewski At fourteen Walewski refused to enter the Russian army, escaping to London and thence to Paris... Alexandre Walewski (1810-1868), statesman, Napoleon's son
• Richard Wallace (1818 - 1890) was an English art collector. He was the illegitimate son of the Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford and inherented his fathers extensive collection of European art in 1871. Wallace expanded it himself, and in 1897, after his death, the collection was donated to... Richard Wallace (1818 - 1890), British art collector
• Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde ( October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. One of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day, known for his barbed and... Oscar Wilde, Irish writer
• Richard Wright, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 - November 28, 1960) was an African-American author of novels and short stories. Wright was born in Roxie, Mississippi, a tiny town located about 22 miles east of Natchez, in Franklin County, though his family moved... Richard Wright, American writer
• Achille Zavatta ( May 6, 1915 - November 16, 1993) was a French clown, artist and circus operator. Achille Zavatta was born in La Goulette, Tunisia, the son of Federico Zavatta, a circus owner. He started performing in his familys circus show at the age of three, forming with his brothers... Achille Zavatta, circus operator and famous clown
• Félix Ziem (1821-1911), painter
• Pierre Abélard (in English, Peter Abelard) or Abailard (1079 - April 21, 1142) was a French scholastic philosopher. The story of his affair with Heloise has become legendary. Abelard and Heloise He was born in the little village of Pallet, about 10 miles east of Nantes, in Brittany, the eldest... Pierre Abelard (1079-1142), medieval French scholastic philosopher
• Heloise is a girls name, carried by at least two notable women: Heloise the student of Abelard, born 1101 Heloise the columnist, born 1951 This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred... Heloise (1101-1162) , medieval abbess of the Pierre Abélard founded the Benedictine Oratory of the Paraclete near Troyes, France, after he left the Abbey of St. Denis about 1121. In 1125 he was elected by the monks of the Abbey of St. Gildas, near Vannes, Brittany (in present-day France), to be their abbot, so he... Oratory of the Paraclete

Main entrance: boulevard de Ménilmontant. Nearest This page refers to urban rail mass transit systems. For other uses see metro (disambiguation) See also Wikimedia Commons has multimedia related to: Metro List of metro systems metro station U-Bahn S-Bahn advanced light rapid transit monorail Metrophile (A person with a devoted interest in these systems) . External... Metro: Père Lachaise (lines 2 and 3)

See also

• This is a list of famous cemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide. Please add as needed. Argentina La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires - burial site of Eva Perón, Juan Manuel Fangio Cementerio de la Chacarita in Buenos Aires, Argentina is the National Cemetery where Juan Peron... List of other famous cemeteries

External links

• Cimetière du Père-Lachaise (http://www.insecula.com/musee/M0119.html/)