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Stations worth a stop

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    Châtelet, linked underground with Châtelet–Les Halles, forms one of the largest station complexes in Paris, served by five Métro lines and three RER lines. The Forum des Halles and its garden lie to the north beside the church of Saint-Eustache, and the Seine and the Pont Neuf are a few minutes' walk south.

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    Gare du Nord is the terminus for Eurostar trains to London and for trains to northern France and Belgium, and the RER B from here reaches Charles de Gaulle Airport. Gare de l'Est is about five minutes' walk away, and the Canal Saint-Martin lies roughly fifteen minutes to the east.

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    Gare de Lyon is the terminus for high-speed trains to Lyon, the Alps and the Mediterranean coast, recognisable by its tall clock tower. Le Train Bleu, a restaurant with an ornate Belle Époque dining room, is inside the station, and the arches of the Viaduc des Arts along Avenue Daumesnil are a few minutes' walk away.

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    The station lies beneath Place Charles-de-Gaulle, where twelve avenues meet around the Arc de Triomphe. The arch is reached by an underground passage rather than across the traffic, and the Champs-Élysées runs downhill from here towards Place de la Concorde.

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    The station is on the lower, tree-lined part of the Champs-Élysées. The Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, both built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle, stand just to the south, and the Pont Alexandre III is a short walk beyond them.

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    Concorde opens onto Place de la Concorde and its Egyptian obelisk from Luxor, at the western end of the Tuileries Garden. The Line 12 platforms are lined with tiles spelling out the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, and the Musée de l'Orangerie, home to Monet's Water Lilies, is at the garden's corner.

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    The station exits onto the arcaded Rue de Rivoli, directly opposite the Tuileries Garden. The Louvre lies at the garden's eastern end, and Place Vendôme is about five minutes' walk north.

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    This is the closest station to the Louvre, with an underground route into the museum through the Carrousel du Louvre. On Place Colette, one entrance is covered by Jean-Michel Othoniel's glass-bead canopy, and the arcaded gardens of the Palais-Royal and the Comédie-Française are next to it.

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    The station sits in front of the Hôtel de Ville, the city hall of Paris, whose large square often hosts public events. The streets of the Marais begin just to the north-east, and a short walk across the Pont d'Arcole leads to the Île de la Cité.

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    Saint-Paul is the station for the southern Marais, a district of 17th-century mansions, small museums and boutiques. Rue des Rosiers, at the heart of the old Jewish quarter, is a few minutes north, and Place des Vosges is about ten minutes' walk east.

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    The station lies under Place de la Bastille, where the July Column marks the site of the former fortress, and remains of its foundations can be seen from the Line 5 platform. The modern Opéra Bastille stands on the square, and the Arsenal marina stretches south towards the Seine.

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    Cité is the only Métro station on the Île de la Cité, and its deep platforms are reached by lifts and stairs. The flower market is beside the exit, Notre-Dame Cathedral is about five minutes' walk east, and the Sainte-Chapelle and the Conciergerie are just across the boulevard.

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    Saint-Michel opens onto the square and fountain at the edge of the Latin Quarter, with RER connections below. Notre-Dame is just across the Petit Pont, and the Shakespeare and Company bookshop is about five minutes' walk along the riverbank.

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    The station stands beside the abbey church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, one of the oldest churches in Paris. The cafés Les Deux Magots and Café de Flore are on the boulevard opposite, and the surrounding streets are full of galleries and bookshops.

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    The station's vaulted ceiling is decorated with mosaics of signatures of French writers and thinkers. The Musée de Cluny, the national museum of the Middle Ages, is next to the exit, and the Sorbonne and the Panthéon are uphill to the south within about ten minutes.

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    The station opens onto the Place du Trocadéro and the terrace of the Palais de Chaillot, which faces the Eiffel Tower across the Seine. The palace houses several museums, including the Musée de l'Homme, and the Trocadéro Gardens slope down to the river.

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    Bir-Hakeim is an elevated Line 6 station just before the train crosses the Seine on the upper deck of the Pont de Bir-Hakeim. The Eiffel Tower is about ten minutes' walk north-east, and steps from the bridge lead down to the tree-lined walkway of the Île aux Cygnes.

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    Invalides lies at the head of the long lawned esplanade leading to the Hôtel des Invalides, which holds the Army Museum and Napoleon's tomb beneath its gilded dome. The Pont Alexandre III, with its gilded statues, crosses the Seine just beside the station.

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    Varenne is the station for the Musée Rodin, whose house and sculpture garden are next to the exit. Copies of Rodin's The Thinker and his statue of Balzac stand on the Line 13 platform, and the dome of the Invalides is a few minutes' walk away.

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    Abbesses is one of the deepest stations on the network, and its entrance keeps one of Hector Guimard's original glass-roofed Art Nouveau canopies. The Wall of Love, covered in declarations in many languages, is in the small square beside it, and the streets of Montmartre climb towards the Sacré-Cœur.

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    Anvers is the usual starting point for the walk up to the Sacré-Cœur basilica, either by the long flights of steps or by the Montmartre funicular, both about five to ten minutes from the station. The fabric shops of the Marché Saint-Pierre are at the foot of the hill.

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    The Moulin Rouge cabaret, with its red windmill, stands beside the station on Boulevard de Clichy. Rue Lepic winds uphill from here into Montmartre, passing the Café des Deux Moulins.

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    The station is a few minutes' walk from the main entrance of Père Lachaise Cemetery on Boulevard de Ménilmontant. The cemetery's tree-lined avenues hold the graves of Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Édith Piaf and Jim Morrison, among many others.

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    This large interchange, with long moving walkways between its four lines, serves Gare Montparnasse and high-speed trains to Brittany and the south-west. The Tour Montparnasse, with an observation deck at the top, rises beside the station, and Montparnasse Cemetery is about ten minutes' walk south.

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    The entrance to the Catacombs of Paris, the old underground quarries lined with bones, is on Place Denfert-Rochereau beside the station. The bronze Lion of Belfort sits in the middle of the square, and Rue Daguerre, a pedestrian market street, is a few minutes west.

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    The station serves the Bibliothèque nationale de France, whose four glass towers are shaped like open books, and connects with the RER C. The Simone de Beauvoir footbridge crosses the Seine from the library steps to the Parc de Bercy.

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    La Défense is the western terminus of Line 1, at the centre of the main business district of the Paris region. The Grande Arche stands at the end of a long pedestrian plaza lined with office towers, on the same axis as the Arc de Triomphe and the Louvre.

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    The eastern terminus of Line 1 is beside the Château de Vincennes, a former royal fortress whose medieval keep is one of the tallest in Europe. The castle grounds also contain a Gothic Sainte-Chapelle, and the woodland of the Bois de Vincennes begins just to the south.

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    The station opens in front of the Palais Garnier, the 19th-century opera house that gives the area its name. The Galeries Lafayette and Printemps department stores are about five minutes' walk north on Boulevard Haussmann.

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    The Line 11 platforms are clad in riveted copper panels with portholes, designed by the comic artist François Schuiten to evoke a Jules Verne submarine. The Musée des Arts et Métiers, a museum of science and inventions, is directly above the station.

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    The station is a short walk from the Basilica of Saint-Denis, an early Gothic church that served as the burial place of most French kings and queens. The tombs and recumbent effigies can be seen in the crypt and the choir.

  • Line 14

    Since the Line 14 extension opened in 2024, this station has connected Orly Airport directly with central Paris without a change of train. The line runs through Châtelet and Saint-Lazare to Saint-Denis–Pleyel.

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    Saint-Lazare serves Gare Saint-Lazare, the rail terminus for Normandy, which Claude Monet painted in a series of canvases in 1877. Four Métro lines meet here, and the department stores of Boulevard Haussmann are about five minutes' walk east.

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