Catacombe Paris
They are catacombs in the city of Paris in France, which is a cemetery for the bones of the dead underground and includes the remains of approximately 6 million people. It is called the largest cemetery in the world.
Under the streets and buildings of the city of Paris, at a depth of 20 meters, lies a network of tunnels with a length of about 350 km. Some liken Paris to the “Gruyere” cheese, famous for the large number of holes on it. The history of the establishment of these tunnels dates back to the twelfth century as underground quarries for stones that were used to build the city, to be After that, it was closed and forgotten, then after that, and shortly before the French Revolution, and in the late eighteenth century - in the year 1786 - a part of these tunnels was converted as a warehouse for a huge amount of dead bones, and this after it was known during that period of severe overcrowding, and it posed a threat to public health. from the tombs
The remains of the bones of 6 million people were moved into these catacombs between the late eighteenth century and the middle of the nineteenth century, thus forming one of the strangest places created by man on earth that can be visited.
Parisians live in a labyrinth of catacombs that contain the bones of thousands of Parisians who died over decades. They walk daily over a city of the dead whose remains are displayed to visitors and tourists who come to these catacombs because of their strangeness.
In addition to reviewing the rich tourist, archaeological and historical face of these catacombs, they bear a frightening aspect associated with people lost in these catacombs, which makes them a source of horror stories circulated by the city's residents. Noisy in the catacombs.
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