VIP Catacombs Tour with Small Group, Skip the Line Tickets and Special Access
The tour starts by skipping the long entrance lines to walk directly into the Catacombs. This vast, underground cemetery is composed of miles of underground tunnels lined with the skulls and the bones of some 6 million Parisians. With a local guide and a small group of only 6 people or fewer, you'll explore this unbelievable city of the dead where each room reveals ever more ornate and macabre bone decorations. Along the way you'll learn the story of how the catacombs were built and the massive project of moving bones from Paris’ cemeteries into these very tunnels. Your special-access status means the guards will also open gates just for you, so you can explore areas like a secret chapel decorated with skulls and femurs. Believe it or not, the Paris Catacombs are just as much a symbol of city at Notre Dame or the Eiffel Tower. They contain bones representing some 2,000 years of history and their construction was a unique civil engineering project that helped give rise to the modern city. If you want to see a different and completely surprising side of the City of Lights, this is the perfect place to start.