Why do Parisians leave unusual objects at gravestones?
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
If you've been to a Paris cemetery, you might have seen curious collections of unusual objects on certain gravestones (especially celebrities like Jim Morrisson and Oscar Wilde).
You can find potatoes, chewing gum, Metro tickets, apples... and much more.
In this episode, Ana Gimena from LivTours breaks down some of the main offerings you can find on gravestones at Pere Lachaise and Montparnasse cemetery. See our full blog post with all the addresses here.
Book a walking tour of Pere Lachaise with LivTours here.
LivTours offer more than 30 experiences in and around Paris (and hundreds more across Europe). Their tour groups are small - max 6 people - or private and include everything from Pere Lachaise Cemetery and the Catacombs, to day trips in Versailles, Giverny, and Champagne.
They also do food tours of the Marais, small group and private visits to the Louvre, and TukTuk tours of Paris.
Find out more here about LivTours here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. My name is Oliver G. This is the Earful Tower podcast. Here's an episode brought to you by LiveTours, L-I-V-T-O-U-R-S, a tour company that does tours in Paris and all over Europe. Everything from neighborhood tours to Versailles, Champagne. These are totally tailored to travelers' interests, small tours, private tours. Now, |
| 0:21.5 | today's guest, Anna Jimenez, is a Spaniard who's been living in Paris. She moved here 20 years |
| 0:28.1 | ago and she's got a ponchoon. She loves the dark side of the city. We're talking cemeteries. |
| 0:33.9 | We're talking catacombs. We're talking the afterlife. And she's the perfect guest |
| 0:40.0 | for this episode where we delve into the unusual objects that people leave at gravestones around |
| 0:46.8 | Paris. Now, I knew about this before. I knew about the, I knew, I don't want to spoil anything, |
| 0:52.3 | but I knew about the food, the fresh produce at some of the graves, but I didn't know that it went a lot deeper than that. |
| 1:00.2 | So we've got a big handful of these unusual offerings that Parisians have been leaving around the city of Paris in Pellashez and Montpana Cemetery, especially. |
| 1:09.0 | Anna is going to explain it all to us. |
| 1:14.9 | And if you want to go a little bit deeper in the Pellershersh or around Paris, |
| 1:16.9 | livetours.com. |
| 1:19.4 | In the show notes below is where you want to be. |
| 1:21.9 | Here comes some music from Press Maxen. |
| 1:23.0 | My name is Oliver G. |
| 1:25.1 | And this is the Yearful Tower podcast. |
| 1:26.2 | Let's do it. Anna Jimena, welcome to the studio. |
| 1:49.7 | Thank you. |
| 1:50.4 | How you doing? |
| 1:51.3 | Very good. |
| 1:52.2 | How was my Spanish pronunciation? |
| 1:54.4 | Very good. |
| 1:55.1 | Really? |
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