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The Catacombs of Paris,Take care! The following may be very unpleasant!,The Catacombs of Paris,Catacomb,subterranean cemetery composed of galleries or passages with side recesses for tombs. The term, of unknown origin, seems to have been applied first to the subterranean cemetery under the Basilica of San Sebastiano (located on the Appian Way near Rome), which was reputed to have been the temporary resting place of the bodies of Saints Peter and Paul in the last half of the 3rd century. By extension, the word eventually came to refer to subterranean cemeteries.,The Catacombs of Paris,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.,Paris has a deeper and stranger connection to its underground than almost any city, and that underground is one of the richest. The arteries and intestines of Paris, the hundreds of miles of tunnels that make up some of the oldest and densest subway and sewer networks in the world, are just the start of it. Under Paris there are spaces of all kinds: canals and reservoirs, crypts and bank vaults, wine cellars transformed into nightclubs and galleries. Most surprising of all are the carrires-the old limestone quarries that fan out in a deep and intricate web under many neighborhoods, mostly in the southern part of the metropolis.,The catacombs are eeriequiet (except for the sounds of water dripping from the ceiling and tourists chatting), dark (except for the dim floodlights and camera flashes), and in many ways, downright depressing. Its hard not to notice that the bones of these millions of people are all pretty much the same. The skull of a revolutionary may be resting on the leg of an aristocrat; noble and corrupt, young and old, wealthy and poor, all are indistinguishable now. It can give you an entirely new perspective on the concept of human equality. It also gives visitors a very keen sense of their own mortality. It made me wonder fleetingly whether, centuries from n