Sewerage Museum

The sewer system of Paris stretches for 2000 kilometers under the streets of the city. The Paris sewerage museum has earned the right to be called the most original museum of the city. The museum is a small fragment of the real sewerage system of the huge city, which is still operating today.

If you are going to the capital of France, be sure to include in your travel plan a route to the places of Les Miserables, famous Jean Voljean. The network of sewer tunnels until the middle of the XIX century grew very slowly and the city literally drowned in sewage. The situation changed dramatically with the arrival of Baron Osman and the talented engineer Belgrain. It was they who laid the foundations of the sewerage system that is still operating today and almost completely redesigned the city water supply system. As a result of special checks, it was established that the sewerage network consisted of almost two hundred tunnels, many of which have already been forgotten. The issue of a huge amount of dirt, accumulated over centuries, was solved ingeniously and simply - a rumor was launched around the city that jewelry was found under the streets of Paris. Naturally, hundreds of treasure hunters immediately began to clear the sewers in search of the treasure. They extracted hundreds of cubic meters of dirt, but only a few were lucky to find valuables. Gradually, the Belgran system expanded, and during the twentieth century it doubled. Underground channels have become a mirror image of the city, because on each tunnel there are signs with the name of the street and the number of the house under which the channel flows.