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Catacombs of Paris
Old quarry tunnels under the city where the bones of some six million Parisians are stacked in walls and patterns.
- Open
- Tuesday to Sunday; closed Mondays
- Price
- Paid; booking required
- Time Needed
- 1½ hours
- Address
- 1 Avenue du Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy, 75014 ParisDirections
- Getting There
- Denfert-Rochereau station (Metro lines 4 and 6, RER B).
Why Go
In the 1780s, overflowing cemeteries were emptied into these tunnels, and the bones were later arranged into walls of skulls and thigh bones. The route is about 1.5 kilometers, deep underground.
There are 131 steps down and 112 up, and it's cool down there all year.
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