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Catacombs of Paris

Catacombs of Paris: The Catacombs of Paris underground tunnels are much visited by tourists that at various times were used as cemeteries. At least 6 million human skeletons buried here, along of approximately 300 km which are the Carrièrres.

Welcome to the Empire of the Dead. Beneath the streets of Paris lies a vast network of catacombs or as the French say "Municipal Ossuary," referring to the underground ossuary in Paris, which was the resting place of human skeletons. The municipal ossuaries are hundreds of miles limestone quarries that contain the remains of the stone quarries of Paris, parts of which have become the resting place of 6 million Parisians buried there. When you enter the main chamber, which will appear first are walls seemingly made of small stones, but in fact are huge piles of human bodies, tibias and femurs and mixed perfectly ordered and stacked with rows of skulls arranged (very artistically might say) on a cross or other patterns. None of the skulls are completely intact, but there are tunnels made of bones, and although not all the catacombs are open to the public, including some ossuaries that remain closed for security reasons, nearly two miles of the 200 that make up the tunnels are accessible. It is quiet and spooky tunnels due to the chatter of others, the water dripping from the ceiling and dim light illuminating the tunnels.

Its French name is that, originally, it was indeed quarries. By the mid-eighteenth century, epidemics that whipped the population of Paris were the result largely of the burials performed incorrectly and the abundance of mass graves in the church. So in 1786 he decided to move all the bones to these tunnels.

Thereafter, the catacombs continued to be used at key moments in French history. The members of the resistance and soldiers Germans passed through here, either using them as secret passages or as a place to establish a protective bunker.

The entrance to it are a sign that reads:

"Do not follow, here is the power of death."

information to reach,

• Location: Place Denfert-Rochereau, in the Arrondissement 14. Hours
• : Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00 to 17.00 hs.
• Entry: adults, 7 euros, children under 26 years, 3.50 euros, over 60 years, 5.50 euros. Under 13, free .
• Where to stay: Look through the various offers in France. Getting
• In Metro lines 4 and 6, Denfert-Rochereau station.
• By bus: lines 38 and 68.

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