Perpignan station ( French: ''Gare de Perpignan)'' is the railway station serving the city of

Perpignan Perpignan (, , ; ca, Perpinyà ; es, Perpiñán ; it, Perpignano ) is the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France, in the heart of the plain of Roussillon, at the foot of the Pyrenees a few kilometres from the ...

, Pyrénées-Orientales department,

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, southern France. Part of the station was decorated in the style of

Salvador Dalí Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (; ; ; 11 May 190423 January 1989) was a Spanish Surrealism, surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarr ...

, for whom the place held special significance, having proclaimed it to be the "Centre of the Universe" after experiencing a vision of

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ecstasy there in 1963 and made a painting called ''

La Gare de Perpignan ''La Gare de Perpignan'' (''Perpignan Train Station'' also known as ''Pop-Op-Yes-Yes-Pompier'') is a c. 1965 large-scale oil on canvas painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, on display in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. The railway st ...

'' in 1965. The station opened in 1858 and is located on the

Narbonne–Portbou railway The Narbonne—Portbou railway is an important 104-kilometre long railway line that connects the city of Narbonne, France to northeastern Spain. The railway was built by the Compagnie des Chemins de fer du Midi. The first section that was opened i ...

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and Perpignan–Villefranche-de-Conflent railway. The station is served by

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and

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services operated by

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Train services

The following services currently call at Perpignan:Le réseau régional de transport public
TER Occitanie, accessed 12 May 2022. *High speed services (''TGV'') Paris–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan–Barcelona *High speed services (''TGV'') Paris–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan *High speed services (''AVE'') Lyon–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan–Barcelona *High speed services (''TGV)'' Toulouse–Carcassonne–Perpignan–Barcelona *High speed services (''AVE'') Marseille–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan–Barcelona–Madrid *Night services (''Intercités de nuit'') Paris–Carcassonne–Narbonne–Cerbère *Express service (TER Occitanie) Portbou–Cerbère–Perpignan–Narbonne–Béziers–Montpellier–Nîmes–Avignon *Local service (TER Occitanie) Portbou–Cerbère–Perpignan–Narbonne–Toulouse *Local service (TER Occitanie) Villefranche-Vernet-les-Bains–Perpignan

References

Railway stations in Pyrénées-Orientales Railway stations in France opened in 1858 {{Languedoc-railstation-stub