United StatesThe three custom tours in French and English guide visitors through the 107 acres (43 hectares) and 97 divisions and features the final resting places of eighty-four cultural icons, including such luminaries as Frédéric Chopin, Isadora Duncan, Jim Morrison of The Doors, Gertrude Stein, Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Eugene Delacroix, Richard Wright, Sadegh, Hedayat, and many more. The text provides brief descriptions of each creative spirit along with original photographs of the grave-sites, as well as general information, including hours, the history of the cemetery, background on the designs of the 19th-century funerary art and architecture, and suggested visitor etiquette. The GPS function of the app is activated when you arrive at the cemetery in Paris. You can even take a virtual tour from the comfort of your own home on your smartphone or tablet. Best-selling author of “City of Immortals: Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris” writer/photographer Carolyn Campbell spent over 30 years documenting and researching this world-famous cemetery.
Wonderful app!
The app provided us with a great tour through this most fascinating cemetery. Clear directions, great stories, very interesting people!
United StatesSo Helpful
Downloaded this app before my visit to cemetery in September 2022. Found it informative and interesting. It prepared me for this huge, beautiful & overwhelming space that is hard to describe. I loved the pictures and details that helped anchor us to our location. This Cemetery tour was my husband’s favorite day in Paris.
United StatesExcellent, comprehensive, intuitively laid out
Very nice app. I have a brief Paris trip planned for next January and decided since I’ll be in town for only about two days that Père Lachaise would be my main sight to see. Found this app and really like the helpful instructions & background on the interred. Like that it doesn’t just focus on the most famous known (ie Wilde, Proust) but also folks that may not be as recognized but are worth seeing (ie Marie Laurencin, Robert Wright). Obviously I have yet to actually get to the cemetery so I’ll find out how effective their step by step directions will be. One thing I do wish I could do with this app—and I realize this involves a lot heavier coding—is if I could at least specify which individuals I absolutely want to go see, and have an individually tailored tour route created adaptive to those selections. For example: George Méliès isn’t on the same tour as Oscar Wilde & Marcel Proust if I want to primarily take a downhill tour started at Avenue Gambetta and go easy on my hips not having to do quite so much hiking. If I could select the persons I absolutely want to see, and select from options like “Downhill tour,” “Historic tour,” “Scenic route,” then the app could create the most effective route to take me to those persons’ markers in accordance with the type of route I’m ideally looking for (and of course include others of interest that fall along that same route). “Historic” could be a route that focuses on taking me to the individuals by way of great historic monuments also in the cemetery, while “scenic route” might be the longest, most casual one that will also take me by lovely little nooks of scenery, and of course “Downhill/efficient” routes would be those that focus on maximizing sites in the shortest time (for folks like me that will only be in Paris a day or so). Wih such adaptive tour designing, users of the app might even be able to have the option to save their different kinds of tours and share them with other app users. The preplanned three tours in the app now are great, and I’m sure combined with the GPS I’ll be able to still take Tour Three and make a few adjustments to still see Méliès and Seurat without getting too lost lol. It’s still Père Lachaise so I’m certain any tour of it will be amazing, and this app is already well designed and positioned to facilitate that.
United StatesBon jour from CA
The app it’s self is easy to navigate, functional use is easy for all levels. The information is wonderful so are the images, making the overall experience delightful.
United StatesI feel as if I am there
I love this app for Pere-Lachaise which I have always wanted to visit but felt intimidated to do so given its size and complexity. With this guide I now feel as if I could visit it and have an amazing experience. The comprehensive history, lively and elegant descriptions, and beautiful photographs combine to bring Pere-Lachaise to life - I look forward to following these tours in person in the years ahead.
United StatesBest Tour App ever!
I thoroughly loved taking the tours of Pére-Lachaise snuggled in my bed with my double expresso. I have so missed travel in the last year and really felt like I escaped to this magical “City of Immortals” with this app tour. The photos of the graves/tombs are works of art in themselves and the descriptions are whimsical and feel like a personal tour. You can tell that the creators of this tour app are passionate about the place. I can’t wait till I can get back to Paris to use the app in person.
United StatesCity of Immortals
Wow! What a fantastic online experience, visiting the most celebrated cemetery in the world. For right now, I’m enjoying Ms. Campbell’s impressive oeuvre from my armchair and really looking forward to using this sophisticated yet fun tool to successfully navigate one of Paris’ most intriguing historical sites. It is a must have! So many yummy and easily accessible details!
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