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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.

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© 14 Oct 2002, Nicolas Pioch - Top - Up - Info
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