Whole paris is a cemetary???

Question

i came to know abt catacombs of paris.. it consists of million human skulls. the catacombs are just beneath the paris. it means whole paris is a land of deads...

Answer 1

No.

The catacombs are in an abandoned sewer tunnel.  I' can't imagine it is more than 3/4's of a mile altogther.  And the tunnel is not that wide. Paris is a huge sprawling city.  A thin line measuring 3/4's of a mile in no way means that all of Paris is a cemetary!

There was a grave yard shortage during a plague in the middle ages.  A bunch of people had just died.  They needed graves to handle all the newly deceased bodies.  So they took the bones out of cemetarys and stacked them like cordwood in the abandoned tunnel.  The original members of the cemetary had already been dead a long time so all the flesh has long since decomposed, there were just bones left.  Then they buried the newly dead in the cemetaries.  

Some of the people that stacked the bones decided to try and make it artistic.  I highly reccomend the tour.  Don't even think about trying to steal any bones - they check your bags.

Answer 2

yes in underground u can see and visit what is left of old cemetaries. as u (should) know when someone dies, this person cant stay for eternity in a cemetary. years ago the cemetaries of paris were emptied to receive new dead people. and the bones and skull were put underground. what u can visit today is just a little part of it.

Answer 3

No, Paris is not a land of dead people, because it's a huge city and the catacombs take up very, very little of it.  Just as fascinating as the Catacombs are the above ground cemetaries, Pere Lachaise and Montparnasse - both full of the graves of famous people.

Answer 4

And your question is?

Answer 5

Thanks for sharing.