Pere-Lachaise

The app provided us with a great tour through this most fascinating cemetery. Clear directions, great stories, very interesting people!

Downloaded this app before my visit to cemetery in September 2022. Found it informative and interesting. It prepared me for this huge, beautiful & overwhelming space that is hard to describe. I loved the pictures and details that helped anchor us to our location. This Cemetery tour was my husband’s favorite day in Paris.

Very nice app. I have a brief Paris trip planned for next January and decided since I’ll be in town for only about two days that Père Lachaise would be my main sight to see. Found this app and really like the helpful instructions & background on the interred. Like that it doesn’t just focus on the most famous known (ie Wilde, Proust) but also folks that may not be as recognized but are worth seeing (ie Marie Laurencin, Robert Wright). Obviously I have yet to actually get to the cemetery so I’ll find out how effective their step by step directions will be. One thing I do wish I could do with this app—and I realize this involves a lot heavier coding—is if I could at least specify which individuals I absolutely want to go see, and have an individually tailored tour route created adaptive to those selections. For example: George Méliès isn’t on the same tour as Oscar Wilde & Marcel Proust if I want to primarily take a downhill tour started at Avenue Gambetta and go easy on my hips not having to do quite so much hiking. If I could select the persons I absolutely want to see, and select from options like “Downhill tour,” “Historic tour,” “Scenic route,” then the app could create the most effective route to take me to those persons’ markers in accordance with the type of route I’m ideally looking for (and of course include others of interest that fall along that same route). “Historic” could be a route that focuses on taking me to the individuals by way of great historic monuments also in the cemetery, while “scenic route” might be the longest, most casual one that will also take me by lovely little nooks of scenery, and of course “Downhill/efficient” routes would be those that focus on maximizing sites in the shortest time (for folks like me that will only be in Paris a day or so). Wih such adaptive tour designing, users of the app might even be able to have the option to save their different kinds of tours and share them with other app users. The preplanned three tours in the app now are great, and I’m sure combined with the GPS I’ll be able to still take Tour Three and make a few adjustments to still see Méliès and Seurat without getting too lost lol. It’s still Père Lachaise so I’m certain any tour of it will be amazing, and this app is already well designed and positioned to facilitate that.