Hey it’s Wyatt Larson- your world traveler extraordinaire. Have you been to the Catacombs? The Catacombs was made in 1810. If you ever wanted to go to the Catacombs, the address is 1 Avenue du Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy, 75014 Paris, France. The Catacombs to me (in my opinion) is a cool place to go and look and see but truly wouldn’t go myself cause I don’t want to disrespect some ghost that has been there. The Paris Catacombs is truly one of the spookiest places in the world, with hundreds of miles of tunnels that served as a burial ground for Parisians in the 1700s. Official tours happen regularly, so it’s an excellent Halloween destination.
The Catacombs of Paris are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people in a small part of a tunnel network built to consolidate Paris’s ancient stone quarries. The Catacombs is around 1.5 km and a very long walk so bring water and respect the Catacombs as if they were your home. Paris‘s earliest burial grounds were to the southern outskirts of the Roman-era Left Bank city. In ruins after the Western Roman Empire‘s 5th-century end and the ensuing Frankish invasions, Parisians eventually abandoned this settlement for the marshy Right Bank: from the 4th century, the first known settlement there was on higher ground around a Saint-Etienne church and burial ground behind the present Hôtel de Ville, and urban expansion on the Right Bank began in earnest after other ecclesiastical landowners filled in the marshlands from the late 10th century. Thus, instead of burying its dead away from inhabited areas as usual, the Paris Right Bank settlement began with cemeteries near its Centre. Paris‘s earliest burial grounds were to the southern outskirts of the Roman-era Left Bank city.
In ruins after the Western Roman Empire‘s 5th century ended and the ensuing Frankish invasions, Parisians eventually abandoned this settlement for the marshy Right Bank: from the 4th century, the first known settlement there was on higher ground around a Saint-Etienne church and burial ground behind the present Hôtel de Ville, and urban expansion on the Right Bank began in earnest after other ecclesiastical landowners filled in the marshlands from the late 10th century. Thus, instead of burying its dead away from inhabited areas as usual, the Paris Right Bank settlement began with cemeteries near its center.
By Wyatt G. Larson
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