Volontaires station

Volontaires is a station on Line 12 of the Paris Métro located in the . The station is named after the nearby Rue des Volontaires. In 1822, locals transformed an existing dead end into an alley that led to the Rue de Vaugirard, hence its initial name of Ruelle Volontaire, with the "s" added later to pay homage to the soldiers of the French Revolution, the National Volunteers.
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  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: Paris Métro station
  • Also known as: “Volontaires”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Montparnasse Tower and Gare Montparnasse.

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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 1 km east of Volontaires station.

Railway station
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, 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 1 km east of Volontaires station.

Bike rental
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is a bike rental.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include 15th arrondissement and Grenelle.

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The of is in the city's southwest on the Left Bank of the Seine. Quite up-market and quiet, it is the largest arrondissement by both area and population.

Quarter
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is a neighbourhood in southwestern , . It is a part of the of the city. There is currently a Boulevard de which runs along the North delimitation of the quartier, and a Rue de , a few kilometers North-East in the .

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.

Volontaires station

Latitude
48.84153° or 48° 50′ 30″ north
Longitude
2.30801° or 2° 18′ 29″ east
Wheelchair access
no
Open location code
8FW4R8R5+J6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244494489
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Wiki­data ID
Q238902
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Volontaires station” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فولونتار”
  • Basque: “Volontaires”
  • Breton: “Volontaires”
  • Chinese: “志愿者”
  • Chinese: “志願者站”
  • Czech: “Volontaires”
  • Dutch: “Volontaires”
  • Esperanto: “Volontaires”
  • Finnish: “Volontaires”
  • French: “Volontaires”
  • German: “Volontaires”
  • Hungarian: “Volontaires metróállomás”
  • Hungarian: “Volontaires”
  • Italian: “Volontaires”
  • Japanese: “ヴォロンテール駅”
  • Lombard: “Volontaires”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Volontaires”
  • Norwegian: “Volontaires”
  • Polish: “Volontaires”
  • Portuguese: “Estação Volontaires”
  • Portuguese: “Volontaires”
  • Russian: “Волонтер”
  • Spanish: “Estacion de Volontaires”
  • Spanish: “Estación de Volontaires”
  • Turkish: “Volontaires”
  • Urdu: “ولونٹیئرز اسٹیشن”
  • “Volontaires”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Volontaires and Bureau de Poste de Paris Volontaires/Francois Bonvin.

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