Paris Catacombs

paris catacombs
From € 119

Paris Catacombs: Skip-the-Line Guided Tour & Special Access

Get fast-track entry to the underground cemetery of the Paris Catacombs, composed of miles of underground tunnels lined… read more

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Paris Catacombs: Skip-The-Line Ticket + Audio Guide

Take an underground tour of Paris’s grisly mass graveyard, where the bones of a staggering six million human remains… read more

paris catacombs

Twenty meters underground in a maze of galleries, you will discover a cemetery containing the remains of several million Parisians. As you enter the catacombs, a sign above reads “Arrête! C’est ici l’empire de la Mort” (Stop! This is the empire of Death), so you are warned!

The Catacombs of Paris are underground ossuaries, which hold the remains of more than six million people in a small part of a tunnel network built to consolidate Paris’ ancient stone quarries. Extending south from the Barrière d’Enfer (“Gate of Hell”) former city gate, this ossuary was created as part of the effort to eliminate the city’s overflowing cemeteries.

The ossuary remained largely forgotten until it became a novelty-place for concerts and other private events in the early 19th century; after further renovations and the construction of accesses around Place Denfert-Rochereau, it was opened to public visitation from 1874.

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