One of Paris’s top tourist attractions — and certainly its most morbid — closes to visitors from Monday for six months of renovations.

The Paris Catacombs, underground galleries that are the final resting place for millions of bodies disinterred from the capital’s cemeteries between the Middle Ages and the French Revolution, are to become modernised, with better ventilation, lighting and an improved layout.

The works, costing 5.5 million euros ($6.4 million), are designed to improve the experience for the 600,000 annual visitors to the ossuary museum — and to help preserve the remains held there.

The moisture build-up in the catacombs, which drips into puddles on the ground and on visitors “is bad for the preservation of bones,” the site’s administrator, Isabelle Knafou said, as she gav

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