The Catacombs of Paris

Welcome to a thrilling visit of the Catacombs of Paris! (opening: Sunday June 19, 1994)

This unique bone collection of 5 to 6 million people covers a surface of 11.000 square meters, a tiny portion of the 300 km of old mine corridors. Galleries are an average of 2.30 meters high, and the temperature is a constant 11.C, during summer and winter. 148.970 visitors visited the place in 1993.

Documentation

• Word definition

• Les origines (en Français)
• Les catacombes officielles (en Français)
• Autres curiosités (en Français)

Pictures

• Walls...
• Have we met already?
• Pirate?

• La Crypte
• Le Bunker

Credits

• Text by Pascal Massimino
• Color images by Craig A. Merriman. Contact him for any use of the pictures outside of the WebMuseum policy, or for paper reproductions of the photographs (USA Phone#: 303.581.0562).