Catacombs of Paris

metropolitan France · France

Catacombs of Paris, France
Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Year-round
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not-accessible
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Beneath the streets of the fourteenth arrondissement lie tunnels lined with the neatly arranged bones of millions of Parisians. These underground ossuaries were created in the eighteenth century to relieve the city's overflowing cemeteries.

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