Louvre – Rivoli (Paris Métro)

Louvre – Rivoli
Date opened 19 July 1900 (1900)
Accesses 8, rue de l'Amiral de Coligny
Municipality/
Arrondissement		 the 1st arrondissement of Paris
Fare zone 1
Next stations
Paris Métro Line 1
Direction
La Défense		 Direction
Château de Vincennes
Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre Châtelet
List of stations of the Paris Métro
Location of metro station

Louvre Rivoli is a station on Paris Métro Line 1. It is near the Louvre and Rue de Rivoli.

The station was opened on 13 August 1900, almost a month after trains began running on the original section of line 1 between Porte de Vincennes and Porte Maillot on 19 July 1900, under the name Louvre. It was given its current name in 1989, soon after the opening of the new entrance to the Louvre Museum at the simultaneously renamed Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre station.[1]

In 1968, the platforms in this station were decorated with replicas of ancient art from the Louvre Museum. It was the first metro station to become culturally decorated.[1]

Layout

Side Platform
towards La Défense – Grande Arche
towards Château de Vincennes
Side Platform

Gallery

References

  1. ^ a b Hardy, B. Paris Metro Handbook. 3rd Ed, 1999. Capital Transport Publishing.
Paris Métro Line 1

La Défense — Grande Arche     • Esplanade de la Défense • Pont de Neuilly • Les Sablons • Porte Maillot   • Argentine • Charles de Gaulle — Étoile      • George V • Franklin D. Roosevelt   • Champs-Élysées — Clemenceau   • Concorde    • Tuileries • Palais Royal — Musée du Louvre   • Louvre — Rivoli • Châtelet          • Hôtel de Ville   • Saint-Paul • Bastille    • Gare de Lyon      • Reuilly — Diderot   • Nation       • Porte de Vincennes • Saint-Mandé • Bérault • Château de Vincennes