Saint-Jacques (Paris Métro)

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Saint-Jacques
Date opened	1906
Accesses
Municipality/ Arrondissement	Paris 14e
Fare zone	1
Next stations
Paris Métro Line 6 Direction Charles de Gaulle-Étoile Direction Nation Denfert-Rochereau Glacière
List of stations of the Paris Métro

Saint-Jacques is a station of the Paris Métro, named after the Place Saint-Jacques. The Boulevard Saint-Jacques and the Rue Faubourg Saint-Jacques also intersect the square.

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Before the Romans reached the area, the road now known as the Rue Faubourg Saint-Jacques, was a well-used track. It became the Roman road to Aurelianum (Orleans) and was called the Via Superior. It became the central street (the cardo maximus) of Lutetia, the Roman city, which was in the current Latin Quarter (in the vicinity of the Jardin du Luxembourg and the Pantheon).

In the Middle Ages it became known as the Grand-Rue-Oultre-Petit-Pont (the great road beyond the Petit Pont, which connects the Île de la Cité to the Left Bank of the Seine).

In about 1230, the street took its current name referring to the pilgimage route that left Paris for Santiago de Compostela from the church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie (demolished in 1802 — its remains are the Tour Saint-Jacob near Châtelet station) by the streets of Rue Saint-Jacques, Rue Faubourg Saint-Jacques and Rue de la Tombe-Issoire.

Medieval pilgrims passed the site of the station on the way to Santiago de Compostela, Spain.