360° PANORAMAS — UNDERGROUND HERITAGE
Virtual tours of underground heritage
Beneath our feet lies another world: forgotten galleries, hydraulic works, quarries, shelters, crypts and architecture carved into the rock. This page brings together 360° virtual tours so you can explore that underground heritage at your own pace, taking the time to notice the details a real visit sometimes rushes past: tool marks, inscriptions, masonry, technical fittings, volumes and atmospheres.
No sensationalism here: each panorama is a way into understanding what the place was for — extracting, sheltering, storing, transporting, collecting water — and setting the space back in its historical and human context. Pick a site, go full screen, move from point to point, and let the logic of the underground guide you: access, circulation, function.
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THE CATALOGUE
Places to explore
Click on a site to open its virtual tour.
The crypt of Père Lachaise
Virtual tour of the Père Lachaise crypt, a tangle of underground galleries housing bodies from many Parisian cemeteries.
The quarries of the Jardin des Plantes
Hidden nearly ten metres below the Jardin des Plantes in Paris lies a set of underground galleries that served, among other things, as a zoological laboratory for the founder of biospeleology.
The underground quarries of the Cochin Hospital in Paris
Discover a unique place in the underground quarries of Paris, located beneath the Cochin hospital. Saved, restored and opened up by an association since 1983.
The large well and reservoir of Bicêtre
Virtual tour of the Kremlin-Bicêtre well, 57 metres deep. The water was drawn by the hospital's own residents during the reign of Louis XIV.
The Col-des-Roches mills (Switzerland)
Discover mills carved into the rock, where water once drove millstones, a sawmill, an oil mill and textile workshops.
The underground flour mills (Malta)
Explore the Maltese mills, built to turn wheat and barley into the flour used to bake bread.
Underground cisterns and reservoirs (Malta)
Step into Malta's underground cisterns and reservoirs, built to collect, store and distribute a scarce supply of water.
The Harnekop bunker (Germany)
Visit the former nuclear command post of East Germany, a secret bunker built near Berlin to withstand a major crisis.
Paris Catacombs Museum
Through a series of 360° panoramas, visit the official museum of the Paris Catacombs, an emblematic place.
The Caluire reservoir
Virtual tour of the former water plant which, until 1976, supplied the city of Lyon with drinking water.
The Serapeum of Saqqara (Egypt)
The Serapeum of Saqqara is an ancient necropolis dedicated to the sacred bull Apis, north of the funerary complex of Djoser in Lower Egypt.
The bunker at Gare de l'Est
Built on the eve of the Second World War to keep the trains running even during a gas attack, the bunker beneath the Paris-Est station is a remarkably well-preserved gem.
The underground quarry of Jezuïetenberg (Netherlands)
Virtual tour of one of the underground wonders of the Netherlands. Sculpted and painted by Jesuit monks since the 19th century, it is a magnificent setting.
The Medicis Aqueduct
The Medicis Aqueduct is the longest listed historical monument in France. This virtual tour reveals the many inspection points along it.
The Lescuyer underground cathedral
This very well-preserved underground quarry is considered the finest example of reinforcement work in the Paris region.
The Carrara marble quarries (Italy)
In north-west Tuscany, the town of Carrara is best known for the famous quarries that have supplied marble for works of art over the last 2,000 years.
Iron mines
Virtual tour of several French mines where iron ore was extracted.
Pommery champagne cellars
Welcome to the Champagne Pommery cellars in Reims, where history, craft and tradition meet in a single place.
The tomb of Pharaoh Ramses VI (Egypt)
Begun by Ramses V, this tomb was usurped and enlarged by Ramses VI. A few decades later it was plundered, then sealed.
The Kanne Caves (Belgium)
Discover the underground chapel and the guided tour, with a tasting of Mosasaurus beer, cave sausage and cave pie.
The underground shelters of Arras
During the war, New Zealand tunnellers linked a series of underground chalk quarries, using them to emerge beyond no man's land and surprise the enemy.
The underground city of Naours
Delve into the history of the underground city of Naours, a network of galleries dug into the chalk and used as a refuge for centuries.
The Fort of Caluire
Virtual tour of a mushroom farm set up in 1960 in a former defensive gallery linking the forts of Montessuy and Caluire.
NATO's underground base
Virtual tour of a former NATO underground base.
The Carrara-City area
The Carrara space is a genuine underground art gallery. Listed as an architectural heritage protection area, it is devoted to sculpture and stonework.
The Ackerman cellars
The Ackerman cellars offer a unique scenographic journey through a series of contemporary works.
The Costa Rica quarry
Virtual tour of a former stone quarry in Paris, with some magnificent consolidation work.
ANDRA: the CIGEO underground nuclear storage project
Cigéo is a deep geological storage project for radioactive waste, located in France.
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