La Défense–Grande Arche
La Défense station is a station of the Transilien suburban rail lines, RER commuter rail network, Paris Métro, as well as a stop of the Île-de-France tram network.Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Opening hours: Monday—Friday 8:30 AM—5:30 PM
- Type: Office
- Description: Paris Métro station
- Also known as: “La Défense”, “La Défense - Grande Arche”, “Neu-Jkf Fevi Courbevoie”, and “Neu-Jkf Fevi Paris La Défense”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Grande Arche and ESSEC.
Grande Arche
Photo: Cristian Bortes, CC BY 2.0.
La Grande Arche de la Défense, originally called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité, is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France. Grande Arche is situated 600 metres west of La Défense–Grande Arche.
ESSEC
School
Photo: Rdavout, CC BY-SA 2.5.
ESSEC Business School is a French business school and Grande école. Its main campus is located in Cergy, with additional campuses in Paris, Rabat, and Singapore. ESSEC is situated 410 metres northwest of La Défense–Grande Arche.
Tour Carpe Diem
Office building
Photo: Vincevinss, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Tour Carpe Diem is a 162-metre tall skyscraper in the La Défense business district, near Paris in France. The first stone was laid early 2011 by the main contractor BESIX and Spie Batignolles. Tour Carpe Diem is situated 160 metres northeast of La Défense–Grande Arche.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Défense and Puteaux.
La Défense
Photo: Micdjunior, CC BY-SA 3.0.
La Défense is a collection of modern high-rise office and residential buildings built according to an evolving central plan on the western outskirts of Paris, beyond the last Parisian loop of the river Seine.
Puteaux
Town
Photo: mwanasimba, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Puteaux is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the heart of the Hauts-de-Seine department, 8.7 kilometres from the centre of Paris. La Défense, Paris's business district hosting the tallest buildings in the metropolitan area, spreads over the northern part of Puteaux and parts of the neighbouring communes Courbevoie and Nanterre.
Courbevoie
Town
Photo: Clicsouris, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Courbevoie is a commune located in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region of France. It is a suburb of Paris, 8.2 km from the center of Paris.
La Défense–Grande Arche
- Categories: metro station, underground station, and terminus
- Location: Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France, Europe
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Latitude
48.89093° or 48° 53′ 27″ northLongitude
2.24368° or 2° 14′ 37″ eastElevation
59 metres (194 feet)Open location code
8FW4V6RV+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 9358308118OpenStreetMap feature
office=yes
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“La Défense–Grande Arche” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لا ديفونس”
- Basque: “La Défense”
- Catalan: “Estació de La Défense - Grande Arche”
- Catalan: “Estació de la Défense”
- Catalan: “La Defense - Grande Arche”
- Catalan: “La Défense - Grande Arche”
- Catalan: “La Défense”
- Chinese: “拉德芳斯-新凯旋门站”
- Chinese: “拉德芳斯站”
- Czech: “La Défense”
- Danish: “La Défense (metrostation)”
- Danish: “La Défense”
- Dutch: “La Defense - Grande Arche”
- Dutch: “La Défense - Grande Arche”
- Dutch: “La Défense”
- Esperanto: “La Défense”
- Finnish: “La Défensen asema”
- French: “La Défense - Grande Arche”
- French: “La Défense”
- German: “La Défense”
- Greek: “Λα Ντεφάνς”
- Greek: “Σταθμός Λα Ντεφάνς”
- Hakka Chinese: “La Défense Chhàm”
- Hungarian: “La Défense metróállomás”
- Hungarian: “La Défense”
- Indonesian: “La Défense”
- Italian: “La Défense-Grande Arche”
- Italian: “La Défense”
- Japanese: “ラ・デファンス・グランダルシュ駅”
- Japanese: “ラ・デファンス・グランド・アルシュ駅”
- Japanese: “ラ・デファンス＝グランダルシュ駅”
- Japanese: “ラ・デファンス＝グランド・アルシュ駅”
- Japanese: “ラ・デファンス駅”
- Lombard: “La Défense (metropolitana de Paris)”
- Lombard: “La Défense”
- Luxembourgish: “La Défense - Grande Arche”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Défense – Grande Arche”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Metrostasjonen La Défense”
- Norwegian: “La Défense – Grande Arche”
- Occitan (post 1500): “La Défense”
- Polish: “La Défense”
- Portuguese: “Estação La Défense - Grande Arche”
- Portuguese: “Estação La Défense”
- Portuguese: “La Défense - Grande Arche”
- Portuguese: “La Défense”
- Russian: “Ла-Дефанс — Гранд Арш”
- Russian: “Ля Дефанс — Гранд Арш”
- Slovak: “La Défense - Grande Arche”
- Slovak: “La Défense”
- Slovenian: “La Défense”
- Spanish: “Estación de La Défense”
- Spanish: “La Defense”
- Spanish: “La Défense”
- Swedish: “La Défense”
- Ukrainian: “Ла-Дефанс”
- Ukrainian: “Ля Дефанс — Гранд Арш”
- “La Défense”
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