Dark tourism (dark tourism) has gained a large number of followers in recent years, which translates into an increase in the offer to meet this curious demand.
Murders, drug trafficking or nuclear disasters are some of the topics on which thousands of people have focused their interest when organizing their trips, looking for destinations that were marked by some macabre event and in which experiences related to violence are currently offered. or tragedy.
In response to this new trend, Civitatis has selected some of the best activities to discover the temples of crime and organized crime throughout the world.
the catacombs of paris
Located in the 14th arrondissement, next to the Montparnasse cemetery, the Paris Catacombs are a sinister underground burial ground made up of numerous ossuary galleries.
These tunnels contain the remains of more than six million Parisians piled on the walls. Next to them, macabre sculptural ensembles made with the bones give the final touch of sordidness to the macabre scene.
Who said that Paris was the city of light?
Palermo Mafia Tour
Palermo is one of the great cradles of the Italian mafia. Famous for cinema and literature, it has become a tourist attraction for lovers of the best noir.
Medieval sects that gave rise to everything, martyrs murdered by the mafia, corrupt politicians and stages where the best-known faces of Cosa Nostra walked. In this journey through the darkest side of Palermo, not a single detail is missing about the bloodiest episodes in its history.
Palermo, one of the great cradles of the Italian mafia.
Pablo Escobar Tour
What is the reality behind the myth of Pablo Escobar? The intention of this tour is to explain to travelers who Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was and how he impacted the lives of millions of people.
The release of several series and movies about Escobar in recent years has sparked a growing interest in the figure of the most famous drug trafficker of all time. With this tour, travelers will be able to take a journey to the heart of their organization and understand its dimensions beyond television fiction.
Tombstone of Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria.
Visit to the Mob Museum in Las Vegas
If the traveler wants to enjoy one of the most curious exhibitions in Las Vegas and delve into the underworld of organized crime, this ticket for the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, better known as the Mafia Museum, is what I was looking for.
In it you can see the most outstanding episodes of the mafia, such as the St. Valentine’s Massacre of 1929 (when Al Capone ordered the killing of the members of the Moran clan) and contemplate the real wall where they were shot.
In addition, they have a large collection of weapons, recordings obtained by the FBI by tapping phones, and other objects belonging to the bosses of different organizations.
Mob Museum in Las Vegas.
Jack the Ripper Trail
A tour about the most famous serial killer in history could not be missing. This route follows in the footsteps of Jack the Ripper through all corners of Whitechapel. There he started it all, with the corpse of a woman in front of the doors of a local. It was August 31, 1888. And since then, terror has grown until it has shaped the legend of a monster that, to this day, still has no face. We only know the ruthless work of him. And the name with which he signed those terrifying letters: Jack…
The most famous serial killer in history.
Osaka Yakuza Tour
This night tour delves into the local culture of Osaka to show the traveler its hidden side. For three hours, gambling houses, warehouses and clandestine venues take center stage, completely transforming the city to fill it with a thousand anecdotes and put on the table the importance of the yakuza, the fearsome Japanese mafia, in the development of Japanese history.
Crimes, rituals, robberies and ancient codes of honor. The trajectory of this organization continues to arouse enormous curiosity throughout the world. Now it is possible to discover it first hand (and with dinner included in one of its sanctuaries).
Osaka.
Excursion to Chernobyl and Pripyat
Chernobyl and Pripyat are places notorious for the nuclear disaster that occurred on April 26, 1986, when an explosion in reactor number 4 of the nuclear power plant released large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. Its effect was 400 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
On this tour to Chernobyl from Kiev, travelers have the chance to experience a ghost town and experience the havoc caused by the nuclear failure and the radioactive fallout that followed, falling over thousands of square kilometers of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
Chernobyl.
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