catacomb, Paris's underground mass grave, is not just about curiosity

Under the ever-busy and gorgeous Paris, there are five million remains stored in the tunnels that run in all directions - this is the Paris Underground cemetery. Whether it is a movie or a travel book, this place where bones are stacked is always associated with terror and curiosity, but after understanding the history, it is no longer scary, only a little sigh.

Underground quarries:
When cities were founded, they needed building materials. Paris has a lot of limestone buried in the ground, and people happily mined it to build the city. However, with the expansion of the city, the underground gradually formed holes that were difficult to bear. After the subsidence disaster, Louis XVI ordered to find out the cause and start the underground reinforcement project. As a result, stone digging became stone filling, underground quarries were reinforced according to the layout of the city at the time, and an underground passage was formed that seemed to reverse Paris.

Turned into a cemetery?
In ancient Europe, only people with extreme wealth or status could have a separate tomb. For the vast majority of ordinary people, the treatment is to transfer the body after the funeral to a mass grave where it decomposes until it is finally stored in a church urn.

Even the coffins are recycled. As the city expanded, tombs in the suburbs moved into the city, and successive epidemics filled the tombs even more. Finally, the semi-degraded body collapsed into the basement of the house, and the removal of the grave became urgent. But where would all those bones go?

It's like there's an empty underground space!

The great wisdom of Louis XVI ordered the bones removed. The Paris Underpass is officially the catacombs. Later, Napoleon also found this burial site convenient, and many revolutionaries he did not want to be remembered and remembered (regardless of their revolutionary stance or not) were buried together and turned into unknown bones. Someone has to do the work when someone gives the order, and someone can always find fun in the work.

To prevent light damage, this section is not open to all visitors. The palace of art, far and near the Louvre, the dignitaries marveled at the exquisite oil paintings. Meanwhile, thirty metres below the surface of the sun, by candlelight, Charlie clumsily carved his little work.

Paris walking children must visit - Tianzhan Grand Museum

Finally went to the legendary Grande Galerie de l 'Evolution Museum, more than three years old children are already very interested! I was a little afraid of stuffed animals, but went to see the feeling is OK, the whole venue is so beautiful, the lighting is also very dreamy, good for the movie!

Address: 36 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 75005 Paris

Ticket price: Free for those under 26, €13 for those over 26, or €10 if there are other tickets for the botanical garden or Museum of humanity nearby

You can book online in advance or queue for tickets on site. Carefully stroll at least half a day, there are also places to eat simple meals. Picnic outside in the botanical garden if the weather is good.

Note that the introduction is in French, no English, you can use software to take photos and translate.

Floor 1: Underwater World: There are giant whale skeletons! It's amazing to watch! And all kinds of sea life.
2nd floor: Animal world: In the middle is the famous animal migration forces, there are a variety of sound effects and lights, simulate the African grassland lightning and thunder, the sky after rain, etc., children like it too!
3rd Floor: Various biological specimens, the production process of specimens, the evolution of the earth, the urban change of Paris...
4th Floor: Not many things but the whole venue looks good from below!

There is also a VR theme exhibition, to buy additional tickets, suitable for older children above primary school. All down or a little tired, but the children are super love! I feel like I'm gonna bring little A here a lot!