9 September, 2004

Underground cinema

The bone-lined catacombs under Paris are officially off-limits to the public, but a recent police training exercise found something odd in the 190 miles (300km) of tunnels: a fully-equipped cinema, complete with an electric-powered screen and a bar, underneath the Trocadero complex.

Read the BBC article.  Another, in The Guardian, has greater detail.

Stranger than fiction, indeed.

[Update 12/09/04:  Guardian interview with the people who erected the cinema.]