Volontaires
Volontaires is a railway station in Paris, Île-de-France. Volontaires is situated nearby to the health club easyGym, as well as near the sports venue CMG Sports Club.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Volontaires station and Montparnasse Tower.
Volontaires station
Metro station
Photo: Greenski, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Volontaires is a station on Line 12 of the Paris Métro located in the 15th arrondissement. 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.
Montparnasse Tower
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Tour Maine-Montparnasse, also commonly named Tour Montparnasse, is a 210-metre office skyscraper in the Montparnasse area of Paris, France. Constructed from 1969 to 1973, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011, when it was surpassed by the 231-metre Tour First in the La Défense business district west of Paris's city limits. Montparnasse Tower is situated 1 km east of Volontaires.
Gare Montparnasse
Railway station
Photo: Gunnar Klack, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gare Montparnasse, officially Paris Montparnasse and formerly Gare de l'Ouest, is one of the seven large Paris railway termini, and is located in the 14th and 15th arrondissements. Gare Montparnasse is situated 1 km east of Volontaires.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include 15th arrondissement and Grenelle.
15th arrondissement
Photo: Jean-François Gornet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The 15th arrondissement of Paris 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.
Grenelle
Suburb
Grenelle is a neighbourhood in southwestern Paris, France. It is a part of the 15th arrondissement of the city. There is currently a Boulevard de Grenelle which runs along the North delimitation of the quartier, and a Rue de Grenelle, a few kilometers North-East in the 7th arrondissement.
Montparnasse
Suburb
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Montparnasse is an area in the south of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail.
Volontaires
- Type: Railway station
- Categories: building and transportation
- Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
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Latitude
48.84167° or 48° 50′ 30″ northLongitude
2.30795° or 2° 18′ 29″ eastLevels
1Open location code
8FW4R8R5+M5OpenStreetMap ID
way 80236968OpenStreetMap feature
building=train_station
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