Monday, July 15, 2019

PARIS BY WHEELCHAIR -- Part 4

PROGRESS MADE, BUT MANY CHALLENGES REMAIN




Paris is filled with famous final resting places:

The underground, mystifying Catacombs

Pere Lechaise – covering more than 100 acres and filled with unforgettable personalities from Oscar Wilde to Jim Morrison.

Montmartre, with some celebrity tombs and well, the charm of Montmartre.

But for people with disabilities, Montparnasse is the place to be.

The Catacombs, down hundreds of steps; Pere Lechaise, with harsh cobblestones to roll over and some hills; and Montmartre, one of the hilliest places in the City of Light.

Montparnasse is paved, most of it is on quite level ground and it even has a fully-accessible restroom at the main entrance.

A laminated, borrow and return large map leads you to all the famous interred here.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, Porforio Diaz, Serge Gainsbourg, Man Ray, Susan Sontag and Tristan Tzara provide plenty of star power resting in peace.

Paris’ second largest cemetery also has the only moulin (mill) left of 30 that used to stand on the farming plain of Montrouge.

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