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Paris: The Forum des Halles is a partially underground multiple story commercial and shopping center, opened in 1979. The building is connected to the underground station Chatelet-Les-Halles, central hub of Paris's express metro system, the RER. There was more than 300 km (186 mi) of a network of catacombs, started as limestone quarries and later for burials, used as safe passageways in times of revolution.
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