360° PANORAMAS · PARIS
Virtual tours of underground Paris
Beneath Paris, quarrymen extracted the city’s building stone for centuries. Their galleries now house the ossuary of the Catacombs and old mineralogical cabinets. This page brings together the nine 360° virtual tours on the site that are located in Paris, from quarries to cemetery crypts. Each one opens in its own article, with the history of the place.
THE TOURS
Places to explore in Paris
Paris Catacombs Museum
Through a series of 360° panoramas, visit the official museum of the Paris Catacombs, an emblematic place.
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 Costa Rica quarry
Virtual tour of a former stone quarry in Paris, with some magnificent consolidation work.
The Guérinet mineralogical cabinet (France)
Two parallel staircases built around 1810 to show the geological cross-section of the Paris subsoil.
The crypt of Père Lachaise
Virtual tour of the Père Lachaise crypt, a tangle of underground galleries housing bodies from many Parisian cemeteries.
Crypt of the Paris cemetery of Montrouge (France)
The Paris cemetery of Montrouge is the only one with an underground crypt. The history of the site, of the Montrouge plain and of its quarries that became ossuaries.
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 Regard de la Lanterne (France)
The main inspection chamber of the great Belleville aqueduct, built between 1583 and 1613.
The other tours, in France and abroad, are gathered in the catalogue of virtual tours of underground heritage.