simple question, where would I find his grave site, I know it's in Paris and I think near Sacre Coeur, but not sure? Thank you!

The Pere Lachaise Cemetary in Montmarte

I toured Pere Lachaise in April and saw Mr. Morrison's grave. It was a lot of fun. I took a walking tour with this group and would recommend it:<BR><BR>http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ParisWalking/<BR><BR>By the way it's on the border of the 11th & 20th arrondissements. I wouldn't really consider that Montmartre.

closest metro? easy to find? Thank you hello for the name of the cemetary!

thanks David!

Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Belleville-Menilmontant in the 20eme.<BR>http://www.gargl.net/lachaise/

It's served by three Metro stops, but I used Pere Lachaise. That's where I met the tour guide.<BR><BR>Jim Morrison's is probably one of the easiest to find. If you get a map and can follow it to that general area it's not hard to miss because of the guard standing over it 24/7. Other less notorious might be harder to find. For example Edith Piaf's was not very obivous in the mass of tombs around her and there wasn't a crowd to go and see what they were looking at. The crowd was the case with Chopin's. Bunches of people around it so you'd walk over to see what everyone was looking at. <BR><BR>That's why I really enjoyed the tour. I'd have never found the amount of graves we saw on my own. I'd have given up after an hour and gone to a cafe.

I was there last week, no guard. Not really much to look at, petty vandalism, a couple of joints on top of the stone. Pretty humble in relation to the beautiful sculptures around it.

P&egrave;re Lachaise is not near Sacr&eacute;-Coeur (that would be the Montmartre Cimetery)<BR><BR>M&eacute;tro station is... P&egrave;re Lachaise. Get a map at the door.<BR>Many other celebrities there: &Eacute;dith Piaf, Simone Signoret, Yves Montant, Oscar Wilde, Chopin, Marcel Proust...<BR>

Last time I was at Pere Lachaise was 2 years ago. I was very dissapointed to see that the whole place was sparkling clean. Part of the charm of the cementery was that it was so rundown that, given the right weather conditions, it could have been the setting of an Edgar Allan Poe story.

Wow thanks everybody! I didn't realize all those other people were there, that's cool!

I was there last week and there was no guard at Jim Morrison's grave. The cemetary is huge - we spent several hours walking through it and it was very interesting.

I always use the metro stop at Gambetta to visit Pere LaChaise. At that point, you walk down the hill instead of up.

http://www.paris.org/Expos/PereLachaise/pl.history.html

Jean Paul Sartre, too.

Next time your in London visit Highgate cemetery...Now, there's a graveyard right out of Poe...(actually Bram Stoker used it as a backdrop for the London scenes in Dracula!)

someone mentioned using metro at Gambetta to avoid the hills. Does anyone know if they sell maps at that entrance too?