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Paris Métro Line 2
Paris Métro Line 2 ( French: ''Ligne 2 du métro de Paris'') is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro. Situated almost entirely above the former customs barrier around the capital (''Boulevards extérieurs''), it runs in a semicircle in the north of Paris. As its name suggests, Line 2 was the second line of the Métro network to open, with the first section put into service on 13 December 1900; it adopted its current configuration on 2 April 1903, running between Porte Dauphine and Nation. There have been no changes in its service pattern since. At in length, it is the ninth-busiest line of the system, with 105.2 million riders in 2017. Slightly over of the line is built on an elevated viaduct with four aerial stations. In 1903, it was the location of the worst incident in the history of the Paris Métro, the fire at Couronnes. History Chronology *13 December 1900: The first portion of Line 2 Nord was opened between Porte Dauphine and Étoile. *7 October 1902: The li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exposition Universelle (1900)
The Exposition Universelle of 1900, better known in English as the 1900 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next. It was held at the esplanade of Les Invalides, the Champ de Mars, the Trocadéro and at the banks of the Seine between them, with an additional section in the Bois de Vincennes, and it was visited by more than 50 million people. Many international congresses and other events were held within the framework of the Exposition, including the 1900 Summer Olympics. Many technological innovations were displayed at the Fair, including the ''Grande Roue de Paris'' ferris wheel, the '' Rue de l'Avenir'' moving sidewalk, the first ever regular passenger trolleybus line, escalators, diesel engines, electric cars, dry cell batteries, electric fire engines, talking films, the telegraphone (the first magnetic audio recorder), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avenue Foch
Avenue Foch () is an avenue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France, named after World War I Marshal Ferdinand Foch in 1929. It is one of the most prestigious streets in Paris, and one of the most expensive addresses in the world, home to many grand palaces, including ones belonging to the Onassis and Rothschild families. The Rothschilds once owned numbers 19-21. The avenue runs from the Arc de Triomphe southwest to the Porte Dauphine at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne city park. It is the widest avenue in Paris and is lined with chestnut trees along its full length. History The Avenue was constructed during the reign of Emperor Napoleon III, as part of the grand plan for the reconstruction of Paris conducted by Napoleon's Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann. It was designed to connect the Place d'Etoile with another important part of Haussmann's plan, the Bois de Boulogne, the new public park on the west end of the city. The original plan, by Jacques Hittorff, who h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Dumas (Paris Métro)
Alexandre Dumas () is a station on Paris Métro Line 2, on the border of the 11th arrondissement of Paris, 11th and 20th arrondissement of Paris, 20th arrondissements. Location The station is located under Boulevard de Charonne at its intersection with Rue de Charonne and Rue de Bagnolet. Oriented approximately along a north-west / south-east axis, it is located between the Philippe Auguste (Paris Métro), Philippe Auguste and Avron (Paris Métro), Avron metro stations. History The station was opened on 31 January 1903 as part of the extension of line 2 (known at the time as "2 Nord") from Anvers (Paris Métro), Anvers. It was the eastern terminus of the line until 2 April 1903 when it was extended to Nation (Paris Métro), Nation. The station was originally called ''Bagnolet'' after the ''Rue de Bagnolet'', the road to Bagnolet. On 13 September 1970, it was renamed after the French author Alexandre Dumas, père, Alexandre Dumas and the ''Rue Alexandre Dumas''. It was the locati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles De Gaulle – Étoile
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stalingrad (Paris Métro)
Stalingrad () is a Paris Métro station on the border between the 10th arrondissement and 19th arrondissement at the intersection of Lines 2, 5 and 7, located at the Place de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad, which is named after the Battle of Stalingrad. History The Line 2 station opened as ''Rue d'Aubervilliers'', named after a nearby street, on 31 January 1903 as part of the extension of line 2 from Anvers to ''Bagnolet'' (now called Alexandre Dumas). On 5 November 1910, a separate underground station was opened as part of the first section of line 7 between ''Opéra'' and Porte de la Villette a short distance away in the ''Boulevard de la Villette'' and named after it. In 1942, the two stations combined to form ''Aubervilliers – Boulevard de la Villette''. The line 5 opened its corresponding station on 12 October 1942 as part of its extension from Gare du Nord to Église de Pantin. In 1946, the section of the ''Boulevard de la Villette'' near the station was named the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonel Fabien (Paris Métro)
Colonel Fabien () is a station on Paris Métro Line 2, on the border of the 10th and 19th arrondissements under the ''Boulevard de la Vilette''. Location The station is located under Boulevard de la Villette, to the south-east of Place du Colonel Fabien. Oriented approximately along a north-west / south-east axis, it is positioned between the ''Jaurès'' and ''Belleville'' metro stations. In the direction of ''Porte Dauphine'', this is the last underground station before the above-ground section of the line. History The station was opened on 31 January 1903 as part of the extension of line 2 from Anvers to ''Bagnolet'' (now called Alexandre Dumas). It was originally named ''Combat'' after the ''Place du Combat'', which was named after the ''Barrière du Combat'', a gate built for the collection of taxation as part of the Wall of the Farmers-General; the gate was built between 1784 and 1788 and demolished after the Paris Commune of 1871. Its name reflected the animal fighting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaurès (Paris Métro)
Jaurès () is a station on Paris Métro line 2, line 5, and line 7bis in the 10th and 19th arrondissements. History The station was opened on 23 February 1903, three weeks after line 2 was extended from Anvers to ''Bagnolet'' (now Alexandre Dumas) on 31 January 1903. Line 7bis platforms opened on 18 January 1911 as part of the first section of line 7 between Opéra and Porte de la Villette, more than two months after the opening of the line on 5 November 1910. Line 5 platforms opened on 12 October 1942 with the opening of the first section of the line between Gare du Nord and Église de Pantin. On 3 December 1967 the branch to Pré Saint-Gervais was separated as 7bis with the new service terminating at Louis Blanc. The station was originally called ''Rue d'Allemagne'' ("Street of Germany"). On 1 August 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I, the name of the street and the station were changed to ''Jaurès'' as a result of the rising tensions with Germany, a day aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbès – Rochechouart (Paris Métro)
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Barbes or Barbès or ''variation'' may refer to: Barbes *A festival in Latvian mythology Barbeş *''Barbeş'', a village in Greece merged into the town of Vergina Barbès ;People *Armand Barbès, French Republican revolutionary *Charles-Noël Barbès (1914–2008), Canadian politician and lawyer ;Places *Boulevard Barbès, boulevard in the 18th arrondissement of Paris *Barbès - Rochechouart (Paris Métro), a station on the Paris Metro *, a bar in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York ;Music * ''Barbès'' (album), debut solo album of Rachid Taha See also * Barb (other) * Barbe (other) Barbe may refer to: Places * Île Barbe on the Saône, in Lyon, France * Barbe Airport, Mopti, Mali People * Barbe, a surname Other uses * ''Barbe''-class utility landing craft of the German Navy * Alfred M. Barbe High School, Lake Charles, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Paris M2-plan
Metro, short for metropolitan, may refer to: Geography * Metro (city), a city in Indonesia * A metropolitan area, the populated region including and surrounding an urban center Public transport * Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urban area with high capacity and frequency * The public transport operator of city or metropolitan area * The transport authority of city or metropolitan area * The urban rail transit system of a city or metropolitan area Rail systems Africa * Algiers Metro in Algiers, Algeria * Cairo Metro in Cairo, Egypt Asia * Dubai Metro, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) * Kaohsiung Metro, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Republic of China) * Lahore Metro, in Lahore, Pakistan * Manila Metro, in Manila, the Philippines * New Taipei Metro, in New Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China) * Osaka Metro, in Osaka, Japan * Taichung Metro, in Taichung, Taiwan (Republic of China) * Taipei Metro, in Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China) * Taoyuan Metro, in Taoyuan, Taiwan (Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris Metro Ligne 2
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, Fashion capital, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called Caput Mundi#Paris, the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles De Gaulle–Étoile
Charles de Gaulle–Étoile () is a station on Line 1, Line 2 and Line 6 of the Paris Métro, as well as on Île-de-France's commuter rail RER A. It lies on the border of the 8th, 16th and 17th arrondissements of Paris. Originally called simply Étoile, after its location at Place de l'Étoile, it took on the additional name of President Charles de Gaulle in 1970. Location The station is located under the northern part of Place Charles-de-Gaulle, the platforms are established: * on lines 1 (between Argentine and George V stations) and 6 (preceding Kléber station), side by side, parallel to the historic Paris axis; * on line 2 (between Victor Hugo and Ternes stations), almost perpendicular to the previous ones, on a lower level, below the beginning of Avenue de Wagram. History Although line 1 had opened on 19 July 1900, the Étoile station only opened on 1 September 1900. On 2 October 1900, the terminus of line 2 Sud, consisting of the Étoile - Trocadéro section of curr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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