Châtelet station

Châtelet station is a station of the Paris Métro and 's RER commuter rail service, located in the centre of medieval Paris, on the border between the and .
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  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: Paris Métro station
  • Also known as: “Chatelet”, “Châtelet”, “Chatelet-Les Halles”, “Châtelet-Les Halles”, “Estação Chatelet”, “Estacion de Châtelet”, “Pont Notre-Dame”, and “Pont Notre-Dame – Pont au Change”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Saint-Jacques Tower and Centre Georges Pompidou.

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Tour Saint-Jacques is a monument located in the , France, on the . This 52-metre Flamboyant Gothic at the intersection of the Rue de Rivoli with Rue Nicolas-Flamel is all that remains of the former medieval Church… is situated 140 metres southeast of Châtelet station.

Museum
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 , France. is situated 420 metres northeast of Châtelet station.

Theater building
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The is a theatre and opera house, located on the Place du Châtelet in the , France. One of two theatres built on the site of a châtelet, a small castle or fortress, it was designed by Gabriel Davioud at the request of Baron Haussmann between 1860 and 1862. is situated 140 metres southwest of Châtelet station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Quartier des Halles and 4th arrondissement.

Quarter
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The is the second administrative district in Paris, forming part of the . Covering an area of 41.2 hectares, it is bounded by Rue de Rivoli to the south, Rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs to the west, Rue Étienne-Marcel to the north, and Boulevard de Sébastopol to the east.

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The 4th is a good chunk of what used to be medieval Paris, and you'll find a lot left from that time on both islands and in the narrow streets of the lower Marais.

Suburb
Photo: Luctor IV, Public domain.
The is a historic district in , . It spreads across parts of the and arrondissements on the , or Right Bank, of the .

Châtelet station

Latitude
48.85878° or 48° 51′ 32″ north
Longitude
2.34741° or 2° 20′ 51″ east
Wheelchair access
no
Operator
RATP
Network
Paris Métro
Open location code
8FW4V85W+GX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27371862
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Wiki­data ID
Q601484
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Châtelet station” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شاتليه”
  • Basque: “Châtelet”
  • Bosnian: “Châtelet”
  • Breton: “Châtelet”
  • Catalan: “Estació de Châtelet”
  • Chinese: “沙特莱”
  • Chinese: “沙特莱站”
  • Chinese: “沙特萊站”
  • Czech: “Châtelet”
  • Danish: “Châtelet”
  • Dutch: “Châtelet”
  • Esperanto: “Châtelet”
  • Finnish: “Châtelet’n metroasema”
  • French: “Châtelet”
  • German: “Châtelet”
  • Greek: “Σταθμός Σατλέ”
  • Hungarian: “Châtelet metróállomás”
  • Hungarian: “Châtelet”
  • Italian: “Châtelet”
  • Japanese: “シャトレ駅”
  • Korean: “샤틀레 - 레 알”
  • Lombard: “Châtelet (metropolitana de Paris)”
  • Lombard: “Châtelet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Châtelet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Metrostasjonen Châtelet”
  • Norwegian: “Châtelet”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Châtelet (mètro de París)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Châtelet”
  • Persian: “شتله (متروی پاریس)”
  • Persian: “شتله”
  • Polish: “Châtelet”
  • Portuguese: “Châtelet”
  • Portuguese: “Estação Châtelet”
  • Russian: “Шатле”
  • Spanish: “Estación de Châtelet”
  • Swedish: “Châtelet”
  • Turkish: “Châtelet”
  • Ukrainian: “Шатле (станція метро)”
  • Ukrainian: “Шатле”
  • Urdu: “چیٹلیٹ اسٹیشن”
  • “Châtelet”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Saint-Denis - Rivoli and L’éclairage public au XIXe siècle.

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