Catacombes

Catacombes in Paris. We visited them the last day. It is an incredible sight: hundres thousand bones and skulls, piled up meters high in eerie underground caverns. Unbelievable this is just some meters under the Paris streets. The bones were transported from abandoned cemeteries in the late 18th and 19th century, whenever Paris needed the area for housing. The sketches were hard to make, it was quite dark down there.

De Catacomben in Parijs, een gangenstelsel met honderdduizenden botten en schedels! De botten zijn in de 18e en 19e eeuw vanuit opgeruimde kerkhoven rondom Parijs naar dez grotten getransporteerd. Indrukwekkend en griezelig tegelijk.