Les Halles station
Les Halles station is a station on Line 4 of the Paris Métro. Located in the 1st arrondissement, it takes its name from the market halls which were on the site for many years.Photo: Clicsouris, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours:
Monday—Saturday: 10:00 AM—8:30 PM
Sunday: 11:00 AM—7:00 PM - Type: Railway stop
- Description: Paris Métro station
- Also known as: “Les Halles”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Châtelet–Les Halles station and Centre Georges Pompidou.
Châtelet–Les Halles station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Châtelet–Les Halles station is a major train hub in Paris and the largest underground station in the world. Opened in 1977, it is the central transit hub for the Paris metropolitan area, connecting three of five RER commuter-rail lines and five of sixteen Métro lines. Châtelet–Les Halles station is situated 100 metres southeast of Les Halles station.
Centre Georges Pompidou
Arts center
Photo: Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. Centre Georges Pompidou is situated 510 metres east of Les Halles station.
Saint-Eustache
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Church of St. Eustache, Paris, is a church in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The present building was built between 1532 and 1633. Situated near the site of Paris' medieval marketplace and rue Montorgueil, Saint-Eustache exemplifies a mixture of multiple architectural styles: its structure is Flamboyant Gothic while its interior decoration and other details are Renaissance and classical. Saint-Eustache is situated 150 metres north of Les Halles station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Quartier des Halles and Sentier.
Quartier des Halles
Quarter
Photo: Mbzt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Les Halles was Paris's central fresh food market. It last operated on 12 January 1973 and was replaced by an underground shopping centre and a park. The unpopular modernist development was demolished yet again in 2010, and replaced by the Westfield Forum des Halles, a modern shopping mall built largely underground and topped by an undulating 2.5 hectare canopy.
Sentier
Suburb
2nd arrondissement
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The 2nd arrondissement of Paris is one of the financial centres of Europe, being home to the Bourse and thus the CAC 40 index you hear about in world financial news. Other major activities in the neighbourhood are journalism and fashion.
Les Halles station
- Categories: metro station, underground station, transport stop, and transportation
- Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.86217° or 48° 51′ 44″ northLongitude
2.34588° or 2° 20′ 45″ eastOperator
RATPOpen location code
8FW4V86W+V9OpenStreetMap ID
node 264513655OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stopWikidata ID
Q1576810
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Les Halles station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ليه هال”
- Basque: “Les Halles”
- Breton: “Les Halles”
- Chinese: “大堂站”
- Czech: “Les Halles”
- Dutch: “Les Halles”
- Esperanto: “Les Halles”
- Finnish: “Les Halles”
- French: “Les Halles”
- German: “Les Halles”
- Greek: “Σταθμός Λε Αλ”
- Hungarian: “Les Halles metróállomás”
- Hungarian: “Les Halles”
- Italian: “Les Halles”
- Japanese: “レ・アル駅”
- Lombard: “Les Halles (metropolitana de Paris)”
- Lombard: “Les Halles”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Les Halles”
- Norwegian: “Les Halles”
- Polish: “Les Halles”
- Portuguese: “Estação Les Halles”
- Portuguese: “Les Halles”
- Russian: “Ле-Аль”
- Spanish: “Estacion de Les Halles”
- Spanish: “Estación de Les Halles”
- Swedish: “Les Halles”
- Turkish: “Les Halles”
- Ukrainian: “Ле-Аль (станція метро)”
- Ukrainian: “Ле-Аль”
- Urdu: “لیس ہالیس اسٹیشن”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Centre Paris Anim‘ Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Allée André Breton.
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