In all of Paris, underground, remains are buried, no more and no less, 6 million people. It's creepy and simultaneously amazing!
1. The catacombs were built in the late 18th century.
According to the established Christian tradition, the deceased tried to bury him on the land adjacent to the church. Cemeteries throughout Paris were overcrowded and became breeding grounds for infections. It was decided to exhume and rebury the remains in the city's tunnels.
2. There you will find the bones of 6 million Parisians.
3. You can also see the murals of the times of the Great French Revolution (1789-1799).
4. Only a small part of the catacombs is open to the public as a tourist attraction, but there are dozens of secret passages all over Paris, of which few know the existence.
5. The catacombs of Paris are not only the bones of millions of people, they are also kilometers of tunnels, not all of which are mapped.
The fact that people are wandering without an experienced escort has been repeatedly proven.
6. During the Second World War Resistance fighters used catacombs as a refuge.
7. The Nazis also built their top-secret bunkers in the city of Death, ironically, five hundred meters from the headquarters of the leaders of the Resistance movement.
8. Over the past few years, the catacombs have become the fiefdom of "Underground Pirates" - cataphiles, people who deliberately stay underground to experience a kind of hermitry.
Their adventures are illegal, but this is not the only reason why they are kept in the strictest secrecy - in order to get into this secret community, it may take decades.
9. There is a legend about a guy who was lost and died in the catacombs in 1793.
It is said that Philibertus Apsert's body was found near the exit from the tunnel 11 years after his death.