Sentier (Paris Métro)
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Sentier () is a station on Line 3 of the
Paris Métro The Paris Métro (french: Métro de Paris ; short for Métropolitain ) is a rapid transit system in the Paris metropolitan area, France. A symbol of the city, it is known for its density within the capital's territorial limits, uniform architec ...
in the 2nd arrondissement.


Location

The station is located under Rue Réaumur, at the intersection with Rue de Cléry and Rue du Sentier. Oriented, approximately, along an east–west axis, it is located between the Bourse and Réaumur - Sébastopol stations.


History

The station opened on 20 November 1904 as part of the first section of the line between Père Lachaise and Villiers, which opened a month earlier. The station is named after a path (French: ''Sentier'') leading to the city's fortifications, now called the Rue du Sentier, which gave its name to the Sentier district, known until recently for the activities in the textile trades that developed there from the 1950s. The station is one of the few to have its entrance incorporated into the front of a building. A secondary entrance is located 87 Rue Réaumur; it contains railings designed by Hector Guimard and is listed as a '' monument historique''. Since the 1960s, the platforms have been adorned with metallic bodywork with white surrounds; this technique was then widely used in network stopping points as an inexpensive way to modernize them quickly. As part of the RATP's ''Renouveau du métro'' program, the station's corridors were renovated on 16 May 2003. On 20 March 2018, half of the nameplates on the station's platforms are temporarily replaced by the RATP to celebrate the arrival of spring, in parallel with the distribution of flowers to users, as in five other stations. The new plaques represented a wooden sign decorated with plants, on which the station's patronym is engraved in capital letters. In 2019, 3,420,249 travelers entered this station which placed it at the 146th position of the metro stations for its usage.


Passenger services


Access

The station has two exits leading to Rue Réaumur: * entrance 1 - ''Rue du Sentier'', being among the few in the network to be established in a building, in this case within no. 97 Rue Réaumur, and having a unique signage dating from the 1930s; * entrance 2 - ''Rue des Petits-Carreaux'', adorned with a Guimard edicule which is listed as a historic monument. Located at the right of 87 Rue Réaumur at the end of Rue des Petits-Carreaux.


Station layout


Platforms

Sentier is a standard configuration station. It has two platforms separated by the metro tracks and the vault is elliptical. Since the 1950s, the walls have been covered with a metallic bodywork with white horizontal uprights and light golden advertising frames. This arrangement is completed by yellow ''Motte'' style seats. The bevelled white ceramic tiles cover the piers, the vault, and the tunnel exits. Lighting is provided by independent fluorescent tubes and the name of the station is written in
Parisine Parisine is a typeface created by Jean-François Porchez. Distributed by Typofonderie. It is used in Paris Métro, tramways, buses and RER parts operated by the RATP Group in Île-de-France. Starting in 2015, the Osaka City Subway in Japan ...
font on enamelled plates incorporated into the bodywork.


Bus services

The station is served by lines 20 and 39 of the
RATP Bus Network The RATP bus network covers the entire territory of the city of Paris and the vast majority of its near suburbs. Operated by the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP), this constitutes a dense bus network complementary to other public ...
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sentier (Paris Metro) Paris Métro stations in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris Railway stations in France opened in 1904