This is the grave of Polish born pianist and composer Fryderyk Chopin. His body is below the monument, but his heart is located in the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw. This grave is very hard to find, but well worth it. The Pére Lachaise cemetary is only navigable by map, and it still takes a few hours to start getting a feeling for how to get around. You really just can't show up and hope to come across famous graves, they are mostly hidden away in the most obscure of mazes among the 300,000 seperate tombs and sarcophagi. Bruno and I visited and took pictures of 20 graves, there's no way I will subject you to all the pictures, but there are quite a few tha you just have to see. The cemetary is gorgeous, and not any where near as creepy as one might think. I was so used to just seeing headstones, it is odd to see that all these people aren't usually buried, rather entombed.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
The Grave of Chopin
This is the grave of Polish born pianist and composer Fryderyk Chopin. His body is below the monument, but his heart is located in the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw. This grave is very hard to find, but well worth it. The Pére Lachaise cemetary is only navigable by map, and it still takes a few hours to start getting a feeling for how to get around. You really just can't show up and hope to come across famous graves, they are mostly hidden away in the most obscure of mazes among the 300,000 seperate tombs and sarcophagi. Bruno and I visited and took pictures of 20 graves, there's no way I will subject you to all the pictures, but there are quite a few tha you just have to see. The cemetary is gorgeous, and not any where near as creepy as one might think. I was so used to just seeing headstones, it is odd to see that all these people aren't usually buried, rather entombed.
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