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Catacombes de Paris
A cave few will ever enter · Paris, France
Photo: Jorge Láscar from Melbourne, Australia · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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The experience
A former limestone quarry twenty metres beneath the 14th arrondissement holding the remains of more than six million Parisians, transferred from overflowing city cemeteries from the 1780s. From 1810 the mine-inspection director Héricart de Thury had skulls, femurs and tibias stacked into the decorative walls seen today. The public route runs about two kilometres, down 130 steps and back up 112, at a constant 14°C.
The only cave system in this city, and the most sobering walk in it.
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Where it is
Paris, France · Petit-Montrouge (14e). Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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