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	Catacombs Of Paris And Rome
		From the main entrance to the catacombs, which is near the Barriers d'Enfer, a flight of ninety steps descends, at whose foot galleries are seen branching in various directions.
		The graves, where are buried many of the saints and martyrs of the primitive church, were constructed by hollowing out a portion of the rock at the side of the gallery large enough to contain the body.
		The catacombs at Naples, cut into the Capo di Monte, resemble those at Rome, and evidently were used for the same purpose, being in many parts literally covered with Christian symbols.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles13/catacombs.shtml (431 words)

	Catacombs of Paris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crypt of the Sepulchral Lamp in the Catacombs of Paris
		The Catacombs of Paris is a famous burial place in Paris, France.
		The catacombs in the game's world are home to a clandestine group of French revolutionaries named Silhouette, who make their home in the German World War II bunker.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris (1438 words)

	History of Pere Lachaise Cemetery - Paris
		The Paris government had decided to clear out the cemeteries located near churches in the city and Pere Lachaise was chosen for those formerly buried in the 5th, 7th and 8th arrondissements.
		The Paris Catacombs were abandoned quarries once populated by thieves and the homeless.
		The Paris sewer system was also overwhelmed by the growth of the city contributing to the horrendous sanitary and public health problems.
	northstargallery.com /pages/PereHist.htm (1384 words)

	Catacombs, Paris
		Under Paris, extending over something like a third of its area, is a network of quarries and shafts which from the 11th to the 19th C supplied building material to meet the ever-growing needs of the city.
		Although entry to the catacombs is now prohibited, they still tempt many caving enthusiasts to explore them, and necrophiliacs have sometimes excavated for human remains.
		On the model of the catacombs of Rome and Naples, the remains, arranged according to the graveyards from which they came, were stacked high against the walls of the winding passages.
	www.planetware.com /paris/catacombs-f-p-cat.htm (466 words)

	Secret city thrives beneath Paris - World News - MSNBC.com
		PARIS - The City of Light harbors a city of darkness, a vast network of subterranean tunnels that once gave refuge to bandits, smugglers and saints, and cradles the bones of some 6 million Parisians.
		Part of the catacombs are open to the public, but dropping into the rest of the city of darkness is illegal and can be hazardous.
		The police chief in charge of subterranean Paris fears the new generation of fun-seekers is on a collision course with the urban explorers who regard the underground as part of Paris’ patrimony.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6116318 (1052 words)

	Subterranea of France: The Catacombs of Paris
		catacombs) This name is sometimes used for all the underground caverns of Paris, but the tourist spot, open to the public, are the graves.
		This was necessary to meet desperate overcrowding in the medieval cemeteries in the center of Paris, which also became a hygienic problem.
		The Catacombs of Paris, a slide show with many images.
	www.showcaves.com /english/fr/misc/Catacombs.html (404 words)

	Dave Saunders - Catacombs of Paris
		Completely different from the catacombs of Rome that served as a refuge for the first persecuted Christians, the "catacombs" of Paris are only about two hundred years old.
		This cemetery in the middle of Paris had received the remains of thirty generations of people who died in the twenty parishes of the city.
		On April 7, 1786, the curate of the archbishop of Paris proceeded to the consecration of the "catacombs".
	pages.istar.ca /~jazzy/catacombs.htm (454 words)

	Subterranea: Catacombs
		The name catacomb is derived from the Greek kata kyumbas (at the gorge), which was romanized to ad catacumbas.
		Today many catacombs in Europe are going back to the times of the pest, when so many people died, that they were buried in piles everywhere possible.
		Sometimes the word catacombs is used for cellars of unknown origin and usage, but it is always used for artificial caverns.
	www.showcaves.com /english/explain/Subterranea/Catacombs.html (204 words)

	Paris Catacombs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Later the Catacombs were used to hold the remains of many Parisians when church yards began to fill, mostly due to the many epidemics sweeping Europe.
		The Catacombs had many dates on the walls to indicate work done to consolidate the existing quarries, an enormous project to catalogue the location of the many unknown parts of the quarries and shore up their ceilings to allow Paris to grow.
		Part of the Catacombs were used by the Nazis during their occupation of Paris in the Second World War.
	www.undergroundkent.co.uk /paris_catacombs.htm (927 words)

	Catacombs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The original catacombs are a network of underground burial galleries near San Sebastiano fuori le mura, in Rome.
		Catacombs of Malta on the Mediterranean island of Malta
		In Ukraine and Russia, catacomb (used in the local languages' plural katakomby) also refers to the network of abandoned caves and tunnels earlier used to mine stone, especially limestone.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catacombs (342 words)

	The Catacombs of Paris
		The name catacombs is derived from the usage as graves.
		This name is sometimes used for all the underground caverns of Paris, but the tourist spot, open to the public, are the graves.
		From 1785 to 1786, in 15 months, millions of bones and rotting corpses were transported from the unsanitary city cemetery in Les Halles to this place.
	www.gites-in-vendee.com /links_paris_history_catacombs.htm (316 words)

	Bone Voyage: Catacombs of Paris are an underground 'empire of death' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We saved the catacombs for a day near the end of our trip when all we had planned was to visit to the Maillot Museum and to try and not break anything at the Daum crystal store.
		A small gallery at the landing displayed some photographs and a history of the catacombs use as an ossuary, beginning in 60 B.C.E. with the open limestone rock quarries built by the Romans to the late 18th century when the quarries were first converted into subterranean mass graves.
		Back again into what passes as sunshine during the Paris winter, we were surprised briefly by the fact that the catacombs' exit was on a small back street far from the entrance, more than a mile to be exact.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06134/689395-37.stm (1144 words)

	Haunted France
		Their skeletons, long since dis-interred from the churchyard graves their survivors left them in, are neatly stacked and aligned to form the walls of nearly one kilometer of walking passage.
		The catacombs are in origin stone quarries and quite extensive.
		went underground to the catacombs, where all the mortal remains of past people are buried (the cemeteries got too overcrowded, so they brought the bones down here and "artistically"rearranged them.)
	www.afallon.com /europe/places/pariscatacombs.htm (509 words)

	The Catacombs Of Paris
		The Catacombs began under Roman occupation in 60 B.C. as limestone quarries to build the city.
		It was decided to move the bodies into the Catacombs.
		Over the years, the Catacombs have been commissioned as hideouts for the religious, the criminal, Hitler’s soldiers and France’s Resistance Fighters.
	www.travellady.com /Issues/May06/3141CatacombsOfParis.htm (589 words)

	Underground Paris: The Catacombs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To the left is a passage leading to the maze of rock quarries totaling nearly 300 kilometers underneath Paris.
		These quarries, in continuous use since the Romans, provided a location for the tomb we are about to enter.
		We are now 25 meters under the surface of Paris.
	triggur.org /cata/entry.html (133 words)

	The Catacombs (Les Catacombs) - Find out why this Paris tourist attraction isn't worth a visit
		At the end of the 18th century Paris had too many dead people and the cementeries were overpopulated - the cementeries had become a hygenic problem.
		The Catacombs are still a part of Paris history and the fact that it’s classed as a tourist attraction shows that alot of people don’t share your view.
		Paris is a beautifull city with a lot to offer and this is part of Paris’s history.
	www.parismont.com /113/the-catacombs (690 words)

	Tales From the Shadows: The Catacombs of Paris
		Paris catacombs, visited yearly by more than 100,000 people.
		Underneath the splendour and regularity of Paris' streets lies what one might call the proper antithesis to the city of lights: a giant necropolis, where millions of dead repose en masse, lining the walls of a 200-mile maze of caves and carven passages.
		Arena, thermal baths, forum and temple were built from the high-quality calcite stone, which since has supplied the building blocks for most of the modern city.
	home.att.net /~shadowlandhome/catacombs_frame.html (764 words)

	Catacombs of Paris
		The Catacombs of Paris, is a famous burial place in Paris, France that became a tomb near the end of the 18th century, created as a large network of subterranean chambers and galleries.
		Paris Catacomb museum is in the address of 1 Place Denfert-Rochereau.
		In September 2004, a hidden chamber with a movie theater run by the Mexican Perforation group (a French artistic movement that seeks to express their ideas in underground places) was found by the French police in the Catacombs of Paris.
	www.paris-tours.info /tourist-information/catacombs-of-paris.asp (501 words)

	Paris MYSTERIOUS : Paris catacombs catacombes - History and description
		Popular amongst those searching out a more intense attraction these underground tunnels are lined with the bones of thousands of Paris’ former residents, the story of Paris literally built into the walls.
		Relocation of the bones to the Catacombs began in 1785, when overflowing Parisian cemeteries, particularly the Cimitière des Halles, left authorities with no choice but to act, unfortunate gravediggers taking 15 months to complete the task.
		The collection of bones has since inspired many ghoulish events within the Catacombs, the Count of Artois, future Charles X, organised fantasy nighttime parties here, lit only by torches it was transformed into hell on earth.
	www.parisbestlodge.com /catacombs.html (207 words)

	Catacombs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Reportedly, the hollowed bowels of Paris predate the city itself--they began as rock quarries 1 to 2,000 years ago.
		In the 1780's, part of these quarries was sectioned off to house the contents of several of the city's cemetaries--the first and largest of these was the Cimetiere des Innocents.
		Neither the staircase nor this tunnel is for claustrophobes, although the Catacombs themselves are not uncomfortable.
	www.missouri.edu /~jgba3e/catacombs.htm (526 words)

	Secret Society Gathering Place Discovered in Paris' Underground Tombs
		Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement.
		Members of the force's sports squad, responsible - among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
		The miles of tunnels and catacombs underlying Paris are essentially former quarries, dating from Roman times, from which much of the stone was dug to build the city.
	www.infowars.com /print/Secret_societies/catacombs_restaurant.htm (601 words)

	What are the Paris Catacombs?
		The Paris catacombs, officially called les carrieres de Paris, or the quarries of Paris, is not for the claustrophobic or faint of heart.
		The original cemeteries in the center of Paris were rife with contamination and disease due to improper burials.
		The official entrance to the Paris catacombs is a simple door in a small building.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-are-the-paris-catacombs.htm (512 words)

	Catacombs - Paris Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		I was very curious when I read about the Catacombs and had promised myself to come and visit the resting place of millions of Parisians.
		The 'Catacombes' were, at the beginning, a place to put the bones from the Montparnasse, Montrouge and Montsouris cemetery, places that were not the ideal of hygiene.
		In Paris, this question began pressing hard during the 18th century - the people were literally forced to get active in that matter: By then the biggest cemetery was 'Les Innocents'.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/France/Ile_de_France/Paris-99080/General_Tips-Paris-Catacombs-R-1.html (1327 words)

	UrbanExploration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I had been into the official tour of the Paris Catacombs when I was 14 but these were the real Catacombs of Paris.
		In twenty years from now there may be so many parts of the Paris Catacombs lost and so many barrages in place that it may be impossible to explore the system.
		The holy grail of Urban Exploration, the Paris Catacombs.
	www.urbanadventure.org /2005/catacombs/catacombs.htm (332 words)

	Springtime Paris Panoramas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		All mining was halted to prevent Paris from collapsing in on itself.
		Louis the XVI's committee had the brilliant idea: fill the catacombs of Paris with the bones from the cemeteries.
		Six million bodies were dug up and carted to the catacombs and stacked -- by order of body part, not individual -- within the 2,100 acres of tunnels and caves.
	www.hainsworth.com /qtvr/paris/catacombs.html (275 words)

	Twisted Pictures brings Pink to Catacombs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rope of Silicon carry the news of Catacombs, their latest picture which is to star...
		Catacombs is the story of a young woman on her first visit out of the country.
		While in Paris, she is taken to an underground party in the Catacombs, a labyrinth of over 200 miles of 14th Century limestone tunnels under the Left Bank of the city, lined with the remains of 7 million people.
	www.themovieblog.com /archives/2005/03/twisted_pictures_brings_pink_to_catacombs.html (486 words)

	Catacombs - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Catacombs, network of subterranean chambers and galleries used for burial purposes by peoples of the ancient Mediterranean world, especially the...
		In the continuing search by modern science for naturalistic explanations of biblical events, special attention has always been given to the story of the exodus of the Israelites from their bondage in Egypt.
		Since ancient Egyptian history is relatively well documented, it has always seemed strange...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Catacombs.html (170 words)

	The Paris Catacombs - Interactivity - MSN Encarta
		The Paris Catacombs - Interactivity - MSN Encarta
		Originally constructed during Roman times, the catacombs in Paris were used as a repository for bones during the end of the 18th century.
		For a period during World War II (1939-1945), the Paris catacombs served as the headquarters of the French Resistance movement.
	encarta.msn.com /media_701765828/The_Paris_Catacombs.html (59 words)

	Infiltration: Paris Catacombs
		We barrel through the deserted Paris streets, as dawn breaks onto the city skyline.
		Aboveground duties and the wrath of angry wives beckon.
		The real catacombs are not as neat as the tourist version.
	www.infiltration.org /drains-catacombs.html (3458 words)

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