Porte Dauphine (Paris Métro)

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Porte Dauphine
Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny
The Art Nouveau aedicule at the Porte Dauphine station, designed by Hector Guimard.
The Art Nouveau aedicule at the Porte Dauphine station, designed by Hector Guimard.
Date opened 1900
Accesses boul. de l'Amiral Bruix × Av. Foch
Av. Foch × av. Bugeaud
Av. Bugeaud × av. Foch
Av. Bugeaud × boul. Lannes
Municipality/
Arrondissement
Paris 16e
Fare zone 1
Next stations
Paris Métro Line 2
Direction
Porte Dauphine
Direction
Nation
Terminus Victor Hugo
List of stations of the Paris Métro
Paris map with arrondissements.jpg
Location of Metro station

Porte Dauphine (Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny) is a station of the Paris Métro. It is the western terminus of Line 2.

[edit] History

The Porte Dauphine station was inaugurated on December 13, 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.

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 Métropolitain stations. (The other is at Abbesses.)

Nearby, one can transfer to the RER C at Avenue Foch station (no direct transfer).

[edit] See also


Paris Métro Line 2

Porte Dauphine • Victor Hugo • Charles de Gaulle — Étoile  1 6 A • Ternes • Courcelles • Monceau • Villiers  3 • Rome • Place de Clichy  13 • Blanche • Pigalle  12 • Anvers • Barbès — Rochechouart  4 • La Chapelle ⇒ B D • Stalingrad  5 7 • Jaurès  5 7bis • Colonel Fabien • Belleville  11 • Couronnes • Ménilmontant • Père Lachaise  3 • Philippe Auguste • Alexandre Dumas • Avron • Nation  1 6 9 A


Coordinates: 48°52′17″N 2°16′36″E / 48.87139, 2.27667