As you enter the tunnels, a sign warns: "Arrête, c'est ici l'empire de la Mort" ('Stop, this is the empire of Death').
07 May 2010
Les Catacombes
I ventured to Les Catacombes yesterday, a series of underground caverns and tunnels under Paris with the bones of hundreds of thousands of French from the late 1700s and early 1800s. The mass cemetary has walls and tunnels constructed of skulls and bones and decorative sculptures and crosses dedicated to the dead.
As you enter the tunnels, a sign warns: "Arrête, c'est ici l'empire de la Mort" ('Stop, this is the empire of Death').
As you enter the tunnels, a sign warns: "Arrête, c'est ici l'empire de la Mort" ('Stop, this is the empire of Death').
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I went to this when I visited like a decade ago...Pretty cool!!
ReplyDeleteit's so insane how many bones are in there and the "designs" they created with skulls in the walls. creepy and amazing!
ReplyDeletei've been there too... like me i see you disobeyed the no photos signs. i have a photo of my mom with her hand on a skull. mon dieu!
ReplyDeletethe rule is "no flash" ... which i obeyed like a good little tourist. :)
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