Bundle of Père Lachaise Cemetery: Self-Guided Audio Tours | La Vacanza Travel

Bundle of Père Lachaise Cemetery: Self-Guided Audio Tours

Duration: 1 to 3 hours
Destination: France, Île-de-France, Paris
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  • 1 to 3 hours
  • Paris
  • E-Voucher
  • Lowest Price
  • Not-Cancellable

Overview

Go on a series of humorous GPS-triggered audioguide walks of the world’s most visited cemetery: Père Lachaise. Amazing sculptures and racy stories await you. Mysteries are uncovered, like what was Edith Piaf’s last ride? Which piece from composer Chopin is missing? What did Abélard lose by loving Héloïse? We'll present poets, pensmiths and playwrights like Wilde, Balzac and Molière. Rock out with reposing stars like Jim Morrison, Rossini and Bizet. You'll meet more painters than you can shake a stick at. Hear fascinating stories from their lives in this fun stroll through the largest open-air museum, a park of a thousand sculptures and a million stories. Your guide, a local author, will share 50 of them in The Chairfather tours. Put three hours of content in your pocket with this package of all three walks for the price of two. 

Come walk with The Chairfather. It's an offer you can't refuse!

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Pass By: Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, 8 Boulevard de Menilmontant, 75020 Paris France

The Chairfather tours of Père Lachaise are an immersive experience encompassing theatrical representations and citations, music clips, sound effects, gags and other surprises. Hearing the tales of 50 personalities told in this entertaining way, you'll agree the passed have never been more alive! 

On Tour 1, we will cover one third of the 44 hectares of this immense park. We will visit the final resting places of luminaries Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Alice B Toklas, Ettore Bugatti, Amadeo Modigliani, Edith Piaf, Henri Salvador, Beaumarchais, Anna de Noailles, the Carton family, Quintin Craufurd, Victor Noir, Sarah Bernhardt, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Isadora Duncan, Stéphane Grappelli and a Dragon. In life, many of our hosts were connected to each other in surprising ways. This first tour explores political intrigue, forbidden love, and, of course, sex. 

Tour 2 will see Camille Corot, Jean de La Fontaine, Molière, Antoine Parmentier, Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo, Jean Anthelme Brillat de Savarin, the Tissandier family, Elizaveta Démidoff-Strogonoff, Georges Rodenbach, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Jim Morrison, Héloïse and Abélard, Camille Pissarro, Michel Petrucciani, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Chabrol, Marcel Marceau, and Théodore Géricault. We will explore separation: diverging from tradition, rifts in the relationships of fathers and sons, slicing through the sky, cutting through continents, lovers forcibly pulled apart, breakthrough bold musical compositions and silence as a means of communication. 

The main theme of Tour 3 is builders, meeting four men who made Paris what it is today. We will pay respects to Jacques-Louis David, Félix Faure, Georges Eugène Haussmann, Gioachino Rossini, Louis Visconti, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, Georges Seurat, Georges Méliès, Joseph Croce-Spinelli and Théodore Sivel, Georges Bizet, Gustave Caillebotte, Honoré de Balzac, Eugène Delacroix, Fulgence Bienvenüe, Marcel Proust, Allan Kardec and some guy called Félix de Beaujour. 

No other audio tour visits as many sites inside Père Lachaise.
Your guide is a local author who used to work a couple blocks from the cemetery and would come for lunch all the time. Often he would have to return three times to try to find one site without success. The maps and the apps simply weren't accurate enough. So, he decided to make these tours to get people on track. At least half of the places we will visit you would not be able to find without a guide. The Chairfather tours will bring you in an enjoyable manner to precisely the sites most tourists are looking for. 

This is a GPS-triggered audio tour from VoiceMap, which has the advantage of allowing your eyes free reign to look around you and admire the sites. You can put your phone in your pocket, look up, and let your imagination wander.

Inclusions
  • Lifetime access to the 'The Chairfather: Pere Lachaise Tours One, Two, and Three'
  • VoiceMap Application
  • Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata

Exclusions
  • Smartphone
  • Transportation
  • Food/drinks
  • Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Instructions and a redemption code for downloading will be sent immediately upon purchase.
  • Stroller accessible
  • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate.
  • Once downloaded to your smartphone, the tours work entirely offline. You do not need to be on the local cell phone network.
  • Service animals allowed
  • Near public transportation
  • Infants must sit on laps
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Departure Point

56 Rue des Rondeaux, 75020 Paris, France


Departure Time


Confirm time with the local provider in advance of your experience.
Bundle of Père Lachaise Cemetery: Self-Guided Audio Tours
2/2/2019 - 3/6/2025

Monday - Sunday : 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM


Return Details

Returns to original departure point

Voucher info

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

Duration

1 to 3 hours


User's Reviews

katvoges

16 Jan, 2023

Highly recommend this audio tour! This was much better than a group tour which we couldn’t even book in English at the last minute anyway.. This was an even better solution & cheaper too. We loved doing the trip on our terms when it suited us best. Easy to use app & very entertaining audio. The cemetery wouldn’t have been as enjoyable without the audio tour. It was a cold & rainy day &we still enjoyed ourselves.

jeraldblock

26 Jul, 2021

I enjoyed the tours. I was able to complete two and a half of the three before needing to leave Paris. The app directs you to some very unique and interesting “hosts” and some of the stories are very engaging. The walking was a fair amount of exercise, which I also considered a plus in a very peaceful and respectful setting. Not infrequently, one gets off the desired path the app specifies but it is fairly easy to course correct and get back on the tour. The app performed well. All-in-all, a very inexpensive and useful way to make a tour of the cemetery.

Joebabe

04 Sep, 2020

Tons of fun facts. I laughed a lot at the stories and the impressions. No way I could have found the tombs without the guide.

davefromberkeley

10 Sep, 2019

We enjoyed our walking tour of Pere LaChaise, and found the anecdotes & historical information very interesting. The author chooses many of the better known personalities (plus a couple we hadn't heard of), and provides stories & funny details about their lives... At one point he even kept us in suspense...and then spooked us! :) Sometimes the route is a little tricky to follow among the gravestones, but we were able to simply rewind the audio & follow the directions precisely. Was a fun diversion on a summer afternoon, and the tour was neither too long nor too short. Descriptions & anecdotes were succinct & entertaining.

Agns_Z

04 Nov, 2021

Anecdotes sur les personnes célèbres du cimetière du Père Lachaise très intéressantes par contre visite très longue

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