La Défense–Grande Arche
La Défense station is a station of the Transilien suburban rail lines, RER commuter rail network, Paris Métro, as well as a stop of the Île-de-France tram network.Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Metro station
- Description: Paris Métro station
- Also known as: “La Défense”, “La Défense - Grande Arche”, and “LA DEFENSE GRANDE ARCHE”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Grande Arche and ESSEC.
Grande Arche
Photo: Cristian Bortes, CC BY 2.0.
La Grande Arche de la Défense, originally called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité, is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France.
ESSEC
School
Photo: Rdavout, CC BY-SA 2.5.
ESSEC Business School is a French business school and Grande école. Its main campus is located in Cergy, with additional campuses in Paris, Rabat, and Singapore. ESSEC is situated 170 metres northeast of La Défense–Grande Arche.
Les Quatre Temps
Shopping center
Photo: Jakubszypulka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Westfield Les 4 Temps is the main shopping centre in the business district of La Défense, in the western suburbs of Paris, on the territory of the commune of Puteaux in the Hauts-de-Seine. Les Quatre Temps is situated 190 metres south of La Défense–Grande Arche.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Défense and Puteaux.
La Défense
Photo: Micdjunior, CC BY-SA 3.0.
La Défense is a collection of modern high-rise office and residential buildings built according to an evolving central plan on the western outskirts of Paris, beyond the last Parisian loop of the river Seine.
Puteaux
Town
Photo: mwanasimba, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Puteaux is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the heart of the Hauts-de-Seine department, 8.7 kilometres from the centre of Paris. La Défense, Paris's business district hosting the tallest buildings in the metropolitan area, extends over the northern part of Puteaux and parts of the neighbouring communes Courbevoie and Nanterre.
Courbevoie
Town
Photo: Clicsouris, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Courbevoie is a commune located in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region of France. It is a suburb of Paris, 8.2 km from the center of Paris.
La Défense–Grande Arche
- Categories: underground station, terminus, railway station, and transportation
- Location: Puteaux, Arrondissement of Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.89225° or 48° 53′ 32″ northLongitude
2.23692° or 2° 14′ 13″ eastInception
February 20th, 1970Operator
SNCF;RATPNetwork
Métro de Paris;RER;Tramway d’Île de France;TransilienOpen location code
8FW4V6RP+VQOpenStreetMap ID
node 3586000197OpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q140277
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“La Défense–Grande Arche” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لا ديفونس”
- Basque: “La Défense”
- Catalan: “Estació de La Défense - Grande Arche”
- Catalan: “Estació de la Défense”
- Catalan: “La Defense - Grande Arche”
- Catalan: “La Défense - Grande Arche”
- Catalan: “La Défense”
- Chinese: “拉德芳斯-新凯旋门”
- Chinese: “拉德芳斯-新凯旋门站”
- Chinese: “拉德芳斯站”
- Czech: “La Défense”
- Danish: “La Défense (metrostation)”
- Danish: “La Défense”
- Dutch: “La Defense - Grande Arche”
- Dutch: “La Défense - Grande Arche”
- Dutch: “La Défense”
- Esperanto: “La Défense”
- Finnish: “La Défensen asema”
- French: “La Défense - Grande Arche”
- French: “La Défense”
- German: “La Défense”
- Greek: “Λα Ντεφάνς”
- Greek: “Σταθμός Λα Ντεφάνς”
- Hakka Chinese: “La Défense Chhàm”
- Hungarian: “La Défense metróállomás”
- Hungarian: “La Défense”
- Indonesian: “La Défense”
- Italian: “La Défense-Grande Arche”
- Italian: “La Défense”
- Japanese: “ラ・デファンス・グランダルシュ駅”
- Japanese: “ラ・デファンス・グランド・アルシュ駅”
- Japanese: “ラ・デファンス=グランダルシュ駅”
- Japanese: “ラ・デファンス=グランド・アルシュ駅”
- Japanese: “ラ・デファンス駅”
- Lombard: “La Défense (metropolitana de Paris)”
- Lombard: “La Défense”
- Luxembourgish: “La Défense - Grande Arche”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Défense – Grande Arche”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Metrostasjonen La Défense”
- Norwegian: “La Défense – Grande Arche”
- Occitan (post 1500): “La Défense”
- Polish: “La Défense”
- Portuguese: “Estação La Défense - Grande Arche”
- Portuguese: “Estação La Défense”
- Portuguese: “La Défense - Grande Arche”
- Portuguese: “La Défense”
- Russian: “Ла-Дефанс — Гранд Арш”
- Russian: “Ля Дефанс — Гранд Арш”
- Slovak: “La Défense - Grande Arche”
- Slovak: “La Défense”
- Slovenian: “La Défense”
- Spanish: “Estación de La Défense”
- Spanish: “La Defense”
- Spanish: “La Défense”
- Swedish: “La Défense”
- Ukrainian: “Ла-Дефанс”
- Ukrainian: “Ля Дефанс — Гранд Арш”
- “La Défense”
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