Skeleton art of the dead - Catacombes de Paris (Paris/FR)
Skeleton art of the dead.
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There are no complete skeletons to be seen, but the bones and the heads that form the outer wall of the further bones that are piled up. Often patterns of skulls and bones are formed in these walls of bones. Sometimes a bit bizarre like the skulls that form a heart in a pile of bones.
Photo May 2023, Catacombes de Paris (April 7, 1785) after 238 years in time.
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Catacombes de Paris - Tour
The Catacombs of Paris is the largest collection of underground cemeteries in the world, containing the bones of approximately six million Parisians in underground burial chambers and galleries.
Underground in Paris is a nearly 300 km long network of quarry tunnels used for the building blocks of many Parisian buildings and monuments such as Notre Dame. Because the Parisian cemeteries were overcrowded and very unclean, it was decided to close the cemeteries and move the bones to the underground passages.
It would take two years to empty the majority of Paris's cemeteries. Beginning from an opening ceremony on 7 April 1785 with nightly processions of black cloth-covered wagons carrying the millions of Parisian dead. The property itself was transformed into a sort of museum for all the headstones, sculptures and other artifacts recuperated from the former cemetery. The human remains were dumped into empty chambers and covered with a neatly stacked wall of skulls and bones. Plaques indicate which cemetery the bones come from. Until well into the 19th century, the Catacombs of Paris remained in use for the storage of bones.
Today, about half a million visit a 1.7 km section of the tunnels. It is a former quarry from the 15th century containing the graves of up to the 18th century. After a descent of 25 meters of stairs, a walk takes the visitor past one of the catacombs where the stacked bones and skulls lie, arranged by cemetery where the bones come from and the year they were deposited in the catacombs or by events in the Parisian history.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / #skull #bone #art #Tour #ossuary #CatacombesdeParis in #Paris #France
Published at - Flickr
Skeleton art of the dead - Catacombes de Paris (Paris/FR)
Skeleton art of the dead.
.
There are no complete skeletons to be seen, but the bones and the heads that form the outer wall of the further bones that are piled up. Often patterns of skulls and bones are formed in these walls of bones. Sometimes a bit bizarre like the skulls that form a heart in a pile of bones.
Photo May 2023, Catacombes de Paris (April 7, 1785) after 238 years in time.
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Details
Catacombes de Paris - Tour
The Catacombs of Paris is the largest collection of underground cemeteries in the world, containing the bones of approximately six million Parisians in underground burial chambers and galleries.
Underground in Paris is a nearly 300 km long network of quarry tunnels used for the building blocks of many Parisian buildings and monuments such as Notre Dame. Because the Parisian cemeteries were overcrowded and very unclean, it was decided to close the cemeteries and move the bones to the underground passages.
It would take two years to empty the majority of Paris's cemeteries. Beginning from an opening ceremony on 7 April 1785 with nightly processions of black cloth-covered wagons carrying the millions of Parisian dead. The property itself was transformed into a sort of museum for all the headstones, sculptures and other artifacts recuperated from the former cemetery. The human remains were dumped into empty chambers and covered with a neatly stacked wall of skulls and bones. Plaques indicate which cemetery the bones come from. Until well into the 19th century, the Catacombs of Paris remained in use for the storage of bones.
Today, about half a million visit a 1.7 km section of the tunnels. It is a former quarry from the 15th century containing the graves of up to the 18th century. After a descent of 25 meters of stairs, a walk takes the visitor past one of the catacombs where the stacked bones and skulls lie, arranged by cemetery where the bones come from and the year they were deposited in the catacombs or by events in the Parisian history.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / #skull #bone #art #Tour #ossuary #CatacombesdeParis in #Paris #France
Published at - Flickr