Posted by bobbyl16 I think in paris the catacombs are roughly 300km, odessa 6x more is huge.
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That is correct, the GRS (Grand Réseau Sud) is approximately 330km of inspection galleries linked together with a series of chatières and other tunnels.
Posted by bobbyl16 What i like about Paris, they are all beautifully sculpted, plus its a huge tomb....Ups the spook factor
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Actually, the word "catacombs" is more or less true for the Paris networks of underground quarries. Those quarries were first used to extract stones to build the buildings, and they were in the suburbs surrounding Paris. As the city grew bigger, it became to a point where it started overlapping above the abandoned quarries. After a few cave-ins, the city administration created IGC (Inspection Générale des Carrières) to map and consolidate the quarries. What remained after are the inspection tunnels (they filled the quarries with earth, rock and dirt).
Soon after the consolidations, the overcrowded cemeteries were dug out, and they've put the bones and remains in an ossuary that they've dubbed "Paris Catacombs". The official ossuary, which you can visit for 12 euros and lots of patience (waiting line is more or less 3hrs long) is approximately 1,7km long.
Therefore, calling the whole GRS a "tomb" is note quite exact. There are a few stacks of bones here and there outside the official ossuary, but it's very rare. If you want to see more ossuaries, you must go outside of the GRS into smaller quarries that aren't connected to it.
The whole story of the Paris Catacombs is a very interesting one, there are tons of books on that subject if you're interested to learn more about it: Gilles Thomas wrote a few good ones, among others.