Porte Dauphine (Paris Métro)

Porte Dauphine
Paris Métro
Paris Métro station
Other names Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny
Location
  • boul. de l'Amiral Bruix × Av. Foch
  • Av. Foch × av. Bugeaud
  • Av. Bugeaud × av. Foch
  • Av. Bugeaud × boul. Lannes


16th arrondissement of Paris
Île-de-France
France

Coordinates 48°52′17″N 2°16′36″E / 48.87139°N 2.27667°E / 48.87139; 2.27667Coordinates: 48°52′17″N 2°16′36″E / 48.87139°N 2.27667°E / 48.87139; 2.27667
Owned by RATP
Operated by RATP
Other information
Fare zone 1
History
Opened 12 December 1900 (1900-12-12)
Services
Preceding station   Paris Métro   Following station
TerminusParis Métro Paris Métro Line 2
toward Nation
Location
Porte Dauphine
Location within Paris

Porte Dauphine (Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny) is a station of the Paris Métro. It is the western terminus of Line 2. Nearby, one can transfer to the RER C at Avenue Foch station (with no direct transfer). Paris Dauphine University is nearby.

The station contains one of the only two remaining aedicules originally designed by Hector Guimard (1867–1942), the Art Nouveau architect who was originally commissioned by the Compagnie du Métropolitain de Paris (CMP) in 1899 to design the entrances for the Métro stations. (The other is at Abbesses.)

History

The Porte Dauphine station was inaugurated on 13 December 1900. At the time, Line 2 had only been completed as far as Charles de Gaulle – Étoile. It now runs from Porte Dauphine around the northern part of Paris, through Montmartre, around to its eastern terminus at the Place de la Nation. It is named after Porte Dauphine, a gate in the 19th-century Thiers wall of Paris. Its subtititle honours Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny.

Station layout

Street Level
B1 Mezzanine for platform connection
Westbound (drop-off) platform
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Platform 1 ← termination platform
Platform 3 siding, no regular service
Eastbound platform Platform 4 toward Nation (Victor Hugo) →
Island platform, doors will open on the left for platform 2, right for platform 4
Platform 2 toward Nation (Victor Hugo) →

Gallery

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Porte Dauphine (Paris Metro).

References

Paris Métro Line 2


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