Sacre Coeur to Pere-Lachaise Cemetery--walking distance?

On an earlier post , it was mentioned that Pere- Lachaise cemetery was near Sacre Coeur.Would this be a reasonable walking distance or too far to walk?Thanks for any replies.

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They are miles apart Linet. It%26#39;s Montmartre Cemetery that is near the Sacre Coeur.

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Hey Liney,

Montmartre is nowhere near Pere Lachaise. Check out the metro map at www.ratp.fr. Sacre Couer is close to the Anvers or Abbesses metro wheras the Pere Lachaise metro stop is quite a distance away. You could take the #2 line between Anvers and Pere Lachaise.

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The previous post is correct. They are not near each other. However, Pere-Lachaise is right at a Metro station and easy to get to. Both Sacre Coeur and Pere-Lachaise Cemetary are worth visiting. Try to get to both!

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Thanks for all replies. We will be in Paris for 6 days , but think I%26#39;ll need 6 weeks to see everything!!

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Absolutely nothing in Paris is a terribly long walk, unless you%26#39;re handicapped or not used to walking a lot (eg most of my auto-bound fellow Americans...).

Without my Plan Arrondissement with me, I can not say for sure. But any point within the first 17 arrondissements to any other point is no more than a two hour brisk walk. That central Paris is only about six miles across any direction.

My wife and I walked from Glaciere in the 14th to Sacre-Coeur and caught the Metro back from Abesses aucune probleme. It was all of a short two hours, complete with some lallygagging around the Pompidou and Gare du Nord.

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My wife%26#39;s reminding me that the right bank was a bit of a sketchy nieghborhood around Gare du Nord....and unless you have business there, it might not be the most wonderful place to meander about on foot...

Pere-Lachaise (ie Jim Morrison, Camille Saint-Saens, etc) is much closer to Sacre Coeur than Glaciere but in the same general direction.

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One bit of clever advice I%26#39;ve picked up from others wiser than me, has been that if you are taking the #3 Metro ligne to Cimetaire Pere-Lachaise, don%26#39;t get off at the PERE-LACHAISE stop. Ride the train one more stop to the GAMBETTA station and enter the cemetary from that side. Your stroll through the cemetery will be mostly down hill from there.There are usually people near the entrances who sell maps of the cemetary and the famous and unusual graves there.

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Darth -

I%26#39;m with you on this one. I don%26#39;t think it can be much more than two miles from Sacre Coeur to Pere-Lachaise, certainly not more than three. I normally reckon to walk between four and five miles on an average day in Paris - and I%26#39;m no spring chicken!

That said, I think it would be one of the less interesting walks one could take in Paris...

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Go down boulevard Menilmontant, for about 1hr walk , a little less than 3km. So not far at all, by my standard of course.

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My Insights Paris Fleximap map say%26#39;s it 32 centimeters from Sacre Cour to the pere lachaise metro, as the crow flies.

At a map scale of 1:13500 that equals: 4320 meters.