Vavin station

Vavin is a station of the Paris Métro on line 4 on the border of the and , under Place Pablo-Picasso at the intersection of Boulevard du Montparnasse and Boulevard Raspail.
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  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: Paris Métro station
  • Also known as: “Vavin”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Le Dome.

Historic site
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The is an art school in the district of Paris, . The impeding closure of the school in July 2025 received major criticsm from art heritage groups. is situated 100 metres east of Vavin station.

Restaurant
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Le Dôme Café or Café du Dôme is a restaurant in , that first opened in 1898. Based on the example established by La and followed by , , and , Le Dôme was renowned as an intellectual gathering place for artists and writers during the interwar period.

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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 510 metres west of Vavin station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Montparnasse and 6th 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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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…

Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0.
The in travellers' terms generally refers to the "Left Bank" of the River Seine in the capital city of . The defies precise definition but generally refers to those arrondissements on the southern bank of the river as it flows…

Vavin station

Latitude
48.84222° or 48° 50′ 32″ north
Longitude
2.32901° or 2° 19′ 44″ east
Operator
RATP
Open location code
8FW4R8RH+VJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 264526095
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q954301
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Vavin station” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فافان”
  • Basque: “Vavin”
  • Breton: “Vavin”
  • Chinese: “瓦万”
  • Chinese: “瓦万站”
  • Czech: “Vavin”
  • Dutch: “Vavin”
  • Esperanto: “Vavin”
  • Finnish: “Vavin”
  • French: “Vavin”
  • German: “Vavin”
  • Hungarian: “Vavin metróállomás”
  • Hungarian: “Vavin”
  • Italian: “Vavin”
  • Japanese: “ヴァヴァン駅”
  • Lombard: “Vavin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vavin”
  • Norwegian: “Vavin”
  • Polish: “Vavin”
  • Portuguese: “Estação Vavin”
  • Portuguese: “Vavin”
  • Russian: “Вавен”
  • Spanish: “Estacion de Vavin”
  • Spanish: “Estación de Vavin”
  • Turkish: “Vavin”
  • Urdu: “واون اسٹیشن”
  • “Vavin”

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