Take A Virtual Tour Of The Paris Catacombs: “City Of The Dead”
A few days ago we reported that you can visit the legendary Winchester Mystery House without leaving the comfort of your couch. Today, we’re here to tell you about another iconic location you can visit via virtual tour while in isolation or quarantine, The Catacombs of Paris. In the 1700s, major health problems began to surface in Paris due to the city’s numerous, over-flowing cemeteries with Saints-Innocents cemetery being the largest. The city’s solution, to move the dead to an underground area known at the time as the Tombe-Issoire quarries. Over six million bodies were put into a one-mile section of the 200 miles long maze of tunnels that lays below the streets of Paris. Stacked from wall to ceiling in patterns and made into art, the bones of the dead are laid bare for all to see. The sign that greets you the catacombs reads ‘Stop. This is the empire of death.’ Some visit the site out of morbid
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