THANATOURISM

Bonjour!

TO BE OR NOT TO BE- THAT IS THE QUESTION! 

Have you ever heard about thanatourism( dark tourism) before? No ? Well, it is a really interesting kind of tourism which include visiting places which have something common with death. It sounds a bit weird, but believe me, all of you at least once in life already visited place like that! Let me give you some examples... Auschwitz, Waterloo, Grunwald... but there is one more interesting fact- thanatourism also includes cementaries. And I don't mean visiting your dead relativies, but visiting these places from passion and interests. It sounds weird again, but not all cemetaries are boring. The cemetery which I want to write you about is Pere Lachaise in my favourit city- Paris. I heard about this cemetery few times in the past, but I couldn't imagine, how place like that can be so beautiful. First time I visited Pere Lachaise during my second staying in Paris in 2012, when i came to Paris again in 2013 I had to go there again. Pere Lachaise is like huge museum under the sky, like collection of beautiful art! In this place you can find tombs of famous people like Chopin( where you can often find some polish flags), Héloïse d'Argenteuil and Peter Abelard( one of the most famous lovers couple in the world, who's tomb's looks like a bed with them in it), Oscar Wild( where women from all the world kiss the tomb and leave lipstick sign on it), Edit Phiaf( french singer) and Jim Morrison( where you can very often find bottles, flowers and pictures, and you can also meet people drinking or smoking some weed in front of his tomb).

When you visit Paris- don't miss this place!