Abbesses station
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| Location | 18th arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°53′05″N 2°20′19″E / 48.884849°N 2.338688°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | RATP | ||||||||||
| Operated by | RATP | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 31 October 1912 | ||||||||||
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  Abbesses Location within Paris | |||||||||||
Abbesses (French pronunciation: [abɛs], literally Abbesses) is a station on Paris Métro Line 12, in the Montmartre district and the 18th arrondissement. Abbesses is the deepest station in the Paris Métro, at 36 metres (118 feet)[1] below ground, and is located on the western side of the butte (hill) of Montmartre. Access to the platforms is by elevator or the decorated stairs.
Location
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Nearby are the Montmartre district, the
Église Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre (Art Nouveau
church). The station is named after the Place des Abbesses, referring to the abbesses of the nearby abbey of the Dames-de-Montmartre.
History
The station opened on 30 January 1913,Jules Joffrin. On 27 March 1931, line A became line 12 of the Métro.
Station layout
| Street Level |
| B1 | Mezzanine |
| Line 12 platforms | Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
| Southbound | ← Pigalle )
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| Northbound | Lamarck – Caulaincourt ) →
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| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
Architecture
The station's entrance, designed by
Hôtel de Ville and was transferred to its current location in 1974. The entrance is technically anachronistic, since line 12 of the Paris metro was built by a competing firm, the Nord-Sud Company
, which did not hire Guimard but engaged other architects to design its stations and station entrances.
Abbesses in popular culture
- Abbesses is featured in Porte des Lilasstation, which has a disused platform that has been specially set up for filming.
- The entrance to Abbesses metro station is featured near the beginning of music video for Howard Jones' What Is Love as well as several other locations around Paris[3]
- Louis Vuitton has a messenger style bag in the Monogram Canvas line named after the station.
- A cartoon version of the station appears in the official music video for "Flowers", the ninth track on Émilie Simon.
- "Abbesses" is also where Minette's fashion studio is located in a Nancy Drew PC game Danger By Design.
- The French DJ crew Birdy Nam Nam has composed a musical piece called Abbesses.[4]
- Featured in multiple scenes of the final episode of Netflix original series Sense8.
References
- ^ Jean Robert, Notre métro page 88
- ^ "Commission du Métropolitain du Conseil Municipal de Paris, 8 February 1913". 1913.
- ^ "Howard jones".
- ^ Birdy Nam Nam – Abbesses. Archived from the original on 11 December 2021 – via YouTube.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Abbesses (Paris Metro).
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