Map?

Thank you, GitteK...Most helpful. I gather Montmartre cemetery is interesting. Have you any idea where I can find, on line, a decent map of Montmartre? What I have found so far is rather poor.

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Hi Chris

Most welcome.

(a piece of practical advice: you need not post a new thread for answering or asking additional questions to the same topic).

Type a street name (no number necessary):

http://photos.pagesjaunes.fr/

(you will get a map of the immediate area, and then you can zoom in/out and print out the result)

Look at some photos:

terragalleria.com/europe/…paris.7.html

www.insecula.com/salle/theme_40030_M0116.html

Walk (in French):

www.a-paris.net/A-paris-balade-montmartre.htm

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Le CIMETÈRE du PÈRE-LACHAISE--

http://www.pere-lachaise.com/

To the best of my knowledge, the best map of CIMETÈRE du PÈRE-LACHAISE (not to be confused with CIMETIÈRE DE MONTMARTRE; Métro: La Fourche, Place de Clichy) for sale at kiosks and vendors near the entrances. But there is a serviceable printable %26#39;..mini-map..%26#39; of PÈRE-LACHAISE that you can %26#39;tinker%26#39; with and print out for research and planning purposes, to take along with you (look for the %26#39;..MINI PLAN IMPRINTABLE..%26#39; link at the bottom of the Père-Lachaise home page.

If you go, you might be well advised to take the Metro to the GAMBETTA (ligne #3 station and enter at the Porte de la Reunion entrance (at the end of Ave. Père-Lachaise %26amp; rue des Pondeaux from the Gambetta station)...rather than the main entrance at the PERE-LACHAISE Metro station. The cemetary trends downhill from here.

If you%26#39;ve particular personages you%26#39;re interested in...but not sure of where they%26#39;re buried...you can often use the FIND-A-GRAVE web site to identify which cemetary the%26#39;re resting in--

FIND-A-GRAVE--

http://www.findagrave.com/

Though Père-Lachaise is larger and more famous; it%26#39;s difficult to call Cimetière de Montparnasse %26quot;..dull..%26#39; with monuments like this--

www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi…

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Here is a map for the Montmartre cemetery:

www.paris.fr/portail/viewmultimediadocument…

you can get good street maps by entering addresses or just post codes:

www.mappy.com

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I%26#39;m not a big fan of cemetaries as %26#39;..grave sites..%26#39;......but as venues for viewing often interesting %26#39;..public sculpture..%26#39; and as %26#39;classroms..%26#39; for classic architecture they certainly worth visiting. When I was much younger, I was taken to larger, older cemetaries to help to visually demonstrate many of the elements of classic architecture. The various designs of the buildings and mausoleums found there are often based on the famous temples and buildings of antiquity....in many instances, even down to the classic proportions. In cemetaries they are in minature---models---and can be approached, viewed and compared more easily.

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