Gare de Lyon of Paris, part II !!!

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A memorable train station for its restaurant and our trip to the east of Europe as well as my boys school trips to skiing sites.  In France as in most of Europe , public transport is a must many times, usually forced by work. This is a bit different as we have used it for travel leisure time too. Let me tell you a bit more about the Gare de Lyon of Paris, part II !!!  Hope you enjoy the post as I.

Paris gare de lyon parking feb09

The Gare de Lyon is a train station of Paris.  I have taken it for business trips to Geneva, Basel and Zurich.  It is part of the RER A and D lines and offers a correspondence with lines 1 and 14 of the Metro. More details with sortie or exits are You have the RER A St Germain en Laye, or Cergy or Poissy or Boissy or Marne la Vallée Chessy, The RER D Creil or Orry la Ville or Melun or Corbeil or Malesherbes, Also, Metro line 1 and 14, The metro exit or sorties are :  1 Boulevard Diderot, 2 Ministére de l’Economie et des Finances, 3 Rue Michel Chasles, 4 Cour Chalon, 6 tour de l’Horloge, 7 rue de Bercy, 9 Place Henri Frenay, 10 Rue Legraverend, 11 Rue de Chalon ,12 Rue Villiot, 13 Rue Van Gogh and 15 Maison de la RATP. 

This station is distinguished by its belfry, a square tower of 67 meters and comprising 4 dials 6 meters in diameter built in the academic style of 1900.

Paris gare de lyon metro RER station feb09

Paris gare de lyon belltower feb09

In my business trips, I was either very late or needed a train very early in the morning next day so, used the Mercure hotel at the Gare de Lyon overnight several times. Very nice Accor chain hotel indeed and the location and service is tops, Webpage: https://all.accor.com/hotel/2217/index.en.shtml

Paris gare de lyon mercure hotel feb09

I have written an exhaustive post on the history and connections at the Gare de Lyon ,therefore ,will be brief on that in this post, just for info. The current Gare de Lyon was built in 1899, for the Universal Exhibition of 1900, The large glass roof of the Gare de Lyon, commuter trains and TGVs is impressive indeed, And another thing the Buffet de la Gare de Lyon built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 of Paris, later took the name of the Le Train Bleu restaurant in 1963, in homage to the mythical Train Bleu “Paris-Ventimiglia”, is the place where remains the most intact, the most striking testimony of the end of the Second Empire style (Napoléon III). A masterpiece of 1900s art (see post), The Hall 1 was under heavey renovations but it is supposed to have finish on October 10 2022.

Paris gare de lyon TGV arriving mar10

Paris gare de lyon board mar10

If the Gare de Lyon is mainly a place of passage to arrive and leave Paris, it remains one of the monuments of Paris to see during a stay in the city for sure.

The SNCF gare and connections on the Gare de Lyon: https://www.garesetconnexions.sncf/fr/gare/frply/paris-gare-lyon

The Paris tourist office on the Gare de Lyon: https://parisjetaime.com/eng/transport/gare-de-lyon-p1937

The Oui SNCF official train site on public transports connections on the Gare de Lyon: https://www.sncf-connect.com/gares/paris/paris-gare-de-lyon

A good unofficial webpage on the exclusively the Gare de Lyon: https://www.garedelyon.fr/

There you go folks, a wonderful train station in my eternal Paris, The Gare de Lyon is a memorable one, and always looking forward to be back, eventually, It is another nice architectural monument of Paris as well. Again ,hope you enjoy the post on Gare de Lyon of Paris, part II !!! as I.

And remember, happy travels, good health,and many cheers to all !!!

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I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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