PARIS UNDERGROUND
Documentary
Ron Reagan Junior, son of former US President Ronald Reagan, is the host of this 30' TV Documentary originally produced for the daily US TV show “Good morning America”: We are diving in "The Paris underground” the most unusual, secretive and mysterious place of the underbelly of the French Capital :
- The Paris sewers, a complex system of galleries, built in 1860, with the subterranean lake under the Opera house (featured in the Phantom of the Opera)
- The Paris Quarries, hundreds of galleries that were dug out during centuries and centuries, to extract the stones that were used to build the city.
- The Paris Catacombs: a portion of the quarries have been filled with millions of bones, skulls and skeletons from the overflowing cemeteries of the capital.
- The Paris Metro, one the first Metropolitan underground transport which open in 1900 with more than 200 kms of tracks crisscrossing the capital.
- The Mushrooms Caves of Paris some part of the quarries that are used to grow in the perfect darkness and humidity the famous Champignon de Paris
- The Secret Cellar, a high security vault in the Paris Quarries, where are stored, in the best possible conditions, some of the finest and rarest French vintage wines.
