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Again a shot from filling. This is taken in Paris\' Catacombes.

The Catacombes (according to wikipedia) \"The Catacombs of Paris are a famous underground ossuary in Paris, France. Organized in a renovated section of the city\'s vast network of subterranean tunnels and caverns towards the end of the 18th century, it became a tourist attraction on a small scale from the early 19th century, and was open to the public on a regular basis from 1867.

This cemetery covers a portion of Paris\' former mines near the Left Bank\'s Place Denfert-Rochereau, in a location that was just outside the city gates before Paris expanded in 1860. Although this cemetery covers only a small section of underground tunnels officially called \"les carrières de Paris\" (\"the quarries of Paris\"), Parisians today popularly refer to the entire network as \"the catacombs\".\"
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