Skulls in the Catacombs
Six million in fact - neatly stacked and arranged in the Catacombs of Paris.
From 1785, skeletons were moved from Paris’ overcrowded cemetaries into an old limestone quarry beneath the streets of the city.
The large stacks of bones fill a labyrinth of underground tunnels about a kilometre in total length. The bones look like they have been arranged by type, so I don’t think you were kept together when you were moved from the cemetary!
It’s a macabre museum to say the least!
Catacombs of Paris
When we weren’t disturbing the dead, we were eating garlic-butter snails with newfangled utensils…
Les douze escargots de bourgogne
holy crap, it’s my two favourite things in paris – snails and the catacombs :O
i had to touch one of the skulls, then i creeped myself out, then i had to wash my hand
Snails – yet to try. We saw Jamie Oliver just cook his garden snails, so we might do this at some point (though it seems cruel to deny the chooks this treat).
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