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Catacombes de Paris

Memorials : 0
Location : Paris, City of Paris, France
Phone : +33143224763
Website : www.catacombes.paris.fr/
Coordinate : 48.8338164, 2.3324138
Description : The Catacombs of Paris (French: Catacombes de Paris, About this soundpronunciation) are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, 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. Preparation work began not long after a 1774 series of gruesome Saint Innocents-cemetery-quarter basement wall collapses added a sense of urgency to the cemetery-eliminating measure, and from 1786, nightly processions of... Read More

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  • Where is Catacombes de Paris?

    Catacombes de Paris is located at 1 Avenue du Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy Paris, City of Paris ,Île-de-France , 75014France.

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  • Where are the coordinates of the Catacombes de Paris?

    Latitude: 48.8338164
    Longitude: 2.3324138

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