Claire Adams

Paris is a trendy city is renowned for its arts, culture and fashion. They are a people of the city on their list of places to visit and somewhere that many people will feel alive.

Conversely, it is also a city that many people want to be buried in and that is the custom of many celebrities. For this reason, the cemeteries of Paris are full of famous names and famous gravestones they have themselves become tourist attractions. Montparnasse Cemetery is the final resting place of some famous writers and French thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Charles Baudelaire any cemetery Pere Lachaise is home to most men of international renown, like Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison and Freddedric Chopin.

Of course, in a city that has more dogs than people, it would be strange to have only cemeteries for humans. The Cemetery of Dogs - Paris' Pet Cemetery - see this.

Opened in 1899, the cemetery is considered the first of its kind even though there are now several pet cemeteries in the world. It was built as a reaction to new legislation introduced by stating that the owners were not allowed to throw their animals with their garbage or thrown into the Seine. Since its opening there were over 40,000 animals buried in the cemetery and although it is called the graveyard of dogs, all kinds of pet animals - including monkeys, lions and fish - have been buried there.

Like many cemeteries of Paris, it, too, a resident of celebrity. Rin Tin Tin, the German shepherd dog who was a movie star in the 1920 - 1923 the film 'Where The begins north "which he co-starred in the long-Claire Adams is often credited to save him from bankruptcy Warner Bros. - is the star attraction of the Cemetery of Dogs. After the success of Rin Tin Tin was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and there were several other German Shepherds playing in films in the following years.

As the dead, live animals roam the cemetery as well. Stray Cats - with their own cat house at the rear of the grounds - a stroll in the neighborhood and visitors are allowed to bring their dogs alive as long as they are leashed.

The cemetery is located just outside of Paris in the suburb of Asnieres-sur-Seine. So while it's a short trip away from most hotels in Paris , the subway goes by in the suburbs and is a short walk along the river from the station to Mary Clichy.