Europe station (Paris Metro)
Paris Métro station
Europe – Simone Veil (French pronunciation: [øʁɔp simɔn vɛj]) is a station on Line 3 of the Paris Metro located in the 8th arrondissement.
Location
The station is located under the Rue de Rome at its intersection with the Rue de Madrid, west of the Place de l'Europe. Approximately oriented along a north–south axis, it is located between Villiers and Saint-Lazare Metro stations.
History
The station opened on 19 October 1904, nine days after the first section of Line 3 opened between Père Lachaise and Villiers. It is named after the Place de l'Europe, a square from which streets named for various capitals of European countries radiate. This was the site of the first railway station in Paris, known as the embarcadère de l'Ouest ("Western platform"), the temporary terminus of the Compagnie du Chemin de fer de Paris à Saint-Germain, opened in 1837. The new terminus of Gare Saint-Lazare replaced it from 1842.
As part of the RATP's Renouveau du métro renewal program, its corridors were renovated in March 2000. It was one of the stations to have platforms culturally developed for the centenary celebrations of the metro.
On 25 April 2018, the president of the Île-de-France region Valérie Pécresse, announced that the metro station will be named Europe - Simone-Veil, named after the former Minister of Health and first president of the European Parliament, who died on 30 June 2017.
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