Getting around Paris on the Paris Metro
We either walked 20K+ steps per day or rode the Paris Metro during our 4 day visit.
FUN FACTS about the METRO:
2nd busiest in Europe (after Moscow)
Opened in 1900 (4th oldest metro in Europe after London, Glasgow and Budapest)
308 stations
16 lines
4 million passengers per day
Runs more than 600,000 miles per day – 10 times around the world each day!
Châtelet – Les Halles in central Paris is the world’s largest Metro station.
A Metro trip between two stations takes, on average, 58 seconds
A basic ticket costs around €2
Abbesses is the deepest station at 36 metres underground.
Like the New York City Subway, and in contrast with the London Underground, the Paris Métro mostly uses two-way tunnels.
During WWII, the metro was too shallow to be used as bomb shelters, so it became a meeting place for the French Resistance - allowing them to conduct swift assaults on the Germans throughout Paris.
The Metro is famous for its art & decor, each with its own theme.
Have you been on the Paris Metro?
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