Believed to be one of the most beautiful buildings in the entire world, the Paris Opera House is (like many buildings in Paris) rich in history. Construction began in 1861 and ended in 1876, costing over forty-seven million francs! One of the largest Operas of its day, the building seats 2000 people and has seventeen stories. Seven of these stories are below the ground, and two contain pieces of the famous lake later depicted in Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. In fact if you have ever seen the play “The Phantom of The Opera” this is the opera that said phantom haunted. The bottom layers contain levels beyond levels of cellars, fountains, abandoned prop rooms and tunnels; it is a perfect place for a ghost hunter to go exploring, and since it is rumoured that there are secret connections the famous Paris Sewers it is not for the faint of heart.













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One can never tell what is below a city as old as Paris, and part of the mystique of the opera house is the levels that it inhabits underground. Rooms are being abandoned, reoccupied, and reconstructed to serve as chorus rooms, green rooms, ball rooms, set rooms, cellars for waste props, closets, dressing rooms, and general creepy storage areas. Apparently the “lake” is most likely a series of rooms below the Paris water line that got filled up when an over zealous worker hit a set of water pipes. It is rarely seen, as most of the tours don’t go very deep into the building.













































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