Explore creepy underground cemeteries, visit famous castles or party hard at Europe's biggest Halloween festival
October is here which means that spooky season is upon us. While some people will celebrate Halloween with a scary movie at home, a spot of trick-or-treating or a fancy-dress party, others may be adding a Halloween -twist to their trips abroad.
Just to the south is the Black Forest – where visitors can throw themselves into the world of the Brothers Grimm, and see the landscapes that inspired classic German fairy tales like Hansel & Gretel and Rumpelstiltskin.Another icon of gothic horror fiction, Count Dracula, was based on a very real historical figure with a thirst for blood.
Beneath the ‘City of Light’ lies a dark secret. In the 1790s, after the French Revolution, Paris’ cemeteries were quite literally overflowing – and a radical solution was required. The remains of almost six million people were exhumed and moved to the newly-created Paris Catacombs, a network of mausoleums housed in ancient stone quarries under the city’s streets.
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