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Châtelet
Châtelet is the world's largest underground station complex, connecting five Métro lines and forming the core of the RER cross-city rail network at the adjoining Les Halles station.
Gare du Nord
Gare du Nord is the busiest railway station in Europe by passenger numbers, handling over 700,000 passengers daily including Eurostar services to London (St Pancras) and Thalys services to Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne.
Saint-Lazare
Saint-Lazare is one of Paris's most important railway and Métro interchanges, serving five Métro lines and the major rail terminus for Normandy - the inspiration for many of Monet's paintings.
Charles de Gaulle - Étoile
Charles de Gaulle - Étoile is the Arc de Triomphe station, one of Paris's most iconic landmarks.
Opéra
Opéra station is at the foot of the Palais Garnier - Charles Garnier's masterpiece of Second Empire architecture and the inspiration for Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera.
Bastille
Bastille station marks the site of the notorious 18th-century prison stormed on 14 July 1789 - the birth of the French Revolution.
Trocadéro
Trocadéro offers the most photographed view of the Eiffel Tower in all of Paris - the esplanade directly in front of the Palais de Chaillot frames the tower perfectly across the Seine.
Concorde
Concorde station is directly beneath Place de la Concorde - where Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were guillotined during the Revolution, now dominated by the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk gifted by Egypt.
Louvre - Rivoli
Louvre - Rivoli is the dedicated Métro station for the world's most visited art museum, the Louvre, which attracts over 9 million visitors annually.
Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre
Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre serves the Palais Royal gardens - one of the most beautiful and peaceful spots in central Paris, featuring arcaded 18th-century galleries, Daniel Buren's striped columns and the Comédie-Française theatre.
Montparnasse - Bienvenüe
Montparnasse - Bienvenüe is the main terminus station for the TGV high-speed rail network serving western and south-western France, and one of Paris's most important transport hubs with four Métro lines.
Gare de Lyon
Gare de Lyon is the departure point for TGV high-speed trains to the French Riviera (Nice, Cannes, Monaco), Lyon, Marseille and international services to Geneva, Turin and Milan.
Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame
Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame is the most central station for Notre-Dame Cathedral, which is currently undergoing restoration after the devastating 2019 fire.
Champs-Élysées - Clemenceau
Champs-Élysées - Clemenceau sits at the midpoint of the most famous avenue in the world, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais - two Beaux-Arts exhibition palaces built for the 1900 World Exhibition.
Odéon
Odéon is the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés - historically the intellectual quarter of Paris where Sartre, de Beauvoir and Camus wrote in the cafés of the Deux Magots and Café de Flore.
République
République is one of Paris's major political and cultural crossroads, serving five Métro lines on a vast square dominated by the 1880s bronze Marianne statue - symbol of the French Republic.
Madeleine
Madeleine station sits at the base of the Église de la Madeleine - a neo-classical temple modelled on the Parthenon, surrounded by Paris's most exclusive food shops including Fauchon and Hédiard.
Pigalle
Pigalle has historically been Paris's red-light district and entertainment quarter, though the area has evolved significantly into a creative neighbourhood - particularly around the 'SoPi' (South Pigalle) area - with independent music shops on Rue Victor Massé, cocktail bars, record stores and boutique hotels.
Père Lachaise
Père Lachaise station is the gateway to the world's most visited cemetery, where Édith Piaf, Jim Morrison, Frédéric Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust and Honoré de Balzac are buried.
Anvers
Anvers is the foot-of-the-hill station for Sacré-Cœur and the artistic village of Montmartre - the most visited neighbourhood in Paris.
Nation
Nation is a major four-line interchange in eastern Paris, one of the busiest stations on the network.
Château de Vincennes
Château de Vincennes is the eastern terminus of Line 1, opening directly onto the grand Château de Vincennes - a magnificent medieval royal fortress with a 52-metre keep, the tallest surviving medieval tower in the world.
Arts et Métiers
Arts et Métiers is one of the most visually spectacular Métro stations in the world.
Strasbourg – Saint-Denis
Strasbourg–Saint-Denis is a busy three-line interchange beneath two famous triumphal arches - the Porte Saint-Denis and Porte Saint-Martin, both erected by Louis XIV in the 1670s.
Oberkampf
Oberkampf is a Lines 5 and 9 interchange in eastern Paris at the heart of one of the city's most fashionable bar and nightlife districts.
Abbesses
Abbesses is the deepest Métro station in Paris (36 metres underground) and one of only two stations to retain the original Hector Guimard glass canopy entrance from 1912.
Lamarck – Caulaincourt
Lamarck–Caulaincourt is a Montmartre hillside station on Line 12, featuring a unique double entrance connected by a dramatic open-air stairway cut into the hillside rock.
Hôtel de Ville
Hôtel de Ville is a Lines 1 and 11 interchange in central Paris, positioned between the city hall (Hôtel de Ville) and the Pompidou Centre.
Cité
Cité is a Line 4 station on the Île de la Cité - the island in the Seine at the historical heart of Paris where the city was founded by the Parisii tribe around 250 BC.
Musée d'Orsay
Musée d'Orsay RER C station serves the world's greatest Impressionist art museum, housed in a converted Belle Époque railway station on the left bank of the Seine.
Invalides
Invalides is a multi-line station serving Lines 8 and 13 plus the RER C, positioned between the Musée d'Orsay and the Eiffel Tower.
Cambronne
Cambronne is a Line 6 station in the 15th arrondissement, one of the quieter stations on the Métro network.
Denfert-Rochereau
Denfert-Rochereau is a Lines 4, 6 and RER B interchange in the south of Paris.
Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a Line 4 station at the heart of the legendary Left Bank literary and intellectual district.
Belleville
Belleville is a Lines 2 and 11 interchange in the heart of one of Paris's most diverse and creative neighbourhoods.