Gaîté

Gaîté is a metro station in , . Gaîté is situated nearby to the art gallery , as well as near the amusement arcade .
  • Type: Metro station
  • Also known as: “Gaîté – Joséphine Baker”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Montparnasse Tower and Gare Montparnasse.

Photo: Thbz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tour Maine-Montparnasse, also commonly named Tour Montparnasse, is a 210-metre office skyscraper in the area of , France. Constructed from 1969 to 1973, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011, when it was surpassed by the 231-metre in the business district west of Paris's city limits. is situated 390 metres north of Gaîté.

Railway station
Photo: Gunnar Klack, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, officially Paris Montparnasse and formerly Gare de l'Ouest, is one of the seven large Paris railway termini, and is located in the and . is situated 300 metres northwest of Gaîté.

Railway stop
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Gaîté is a station on Line 13 of the Paris Métro in the . The station is named after the nearby rue de la Gaîté, which was a country road connecting with the Barrière du Montparnasse, a gate in the Wall of the Farmers-General at the intersection of the Boulevard Edgar-Quinet and the rue du Montparnasse.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Montparnasse and 14th arrondissement.

Suburb
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is an area in the south of , , on the of the river , centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail.

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Although largely residential, the is best known for its northeastern quartier Montparnasse, for the Paris Catacombs and the Parc Montsouris.

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As with itself, the is hard to write about without using superlatives. There's a bit of everything here, from the busy sidewalks of Paris' main art Gallery scene to the expansive green spaces and under-tree cafés of the Jardin…

Gaîté

Latitude
48.83864° or 48° 50′ 19″ north
Longitude
2.32251° or 2° 19′ 21″ east
Operator
RATP
Network
Paris Métro
Open location code
8FW4R8QF+F2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11410662232
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Russian—“Gaîté” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “愉悦”
  • Russian: “Гаите”

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