Catacomb

subterranean passageways used as burial place

A catacomb is an underground tunnel that is used to hold and bury dead bodies. Many of them were made in the Roman Empire.

A procession in the San Callistus catacombs in Rome.

Use in music

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The Catacombs is the eighth movement from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky. It describes of loud and soft sounds of echoes in catacombs.

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