The Gare de Lyon is one of the seven main line railway stations of Paris, France, standing in the twelfth arrondissement on the right bank of the Seine and serving as the northern terminus of the Paris to Marseille railway. The original station on the site opened in 1849, but the building recognized today was built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle and inaugurated on April 6, 1901, designed by the architect Marius Toudoire and decorated inside with a fresco by Jean-Baptiste Olive. Its most distinctive feature is the large clock tower rising from one corner of the building, a landmark of the Paris skyline. The station today handles about 148.1 million passengers a year, the second-busiest in France after the Gare du Nord, with 32 platforms across two halls carrying high-speed TGV trains to southern and eastern France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Spain, alongside regional and RER services.
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The Gare de Lyon, officially Paris Gare de Lyon (French pronunciation: [paʁi ɡaʁ də ljɔ̃]), is one of the seven large mainline railway stations in Paris, France.
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The Gare de Lyon, officially Paris Gare de Lyon (French pronunciation: [paʁi ɡaʁ də ljɔ̃]), is one of the seven large mainline railway stations in Paris, France.
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By 1900, in time for the 1900 World's Fair, a new thirteen-track Gare de Lyon building was constructed, designed by the Toulon architect Marius Toudoire and decorated with a large fresco by the Marseille artist Jean-Baptiste Olive, depicting some of the cities to which one could take a train from this station. It was inaugurated on 6 April 1901 by Émile Loubet, president of the Third Republic.
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The Gare de Lyon, officially Paris Gare de Lyon (French pronunciation: [paʁi ɡaʁ də ljɔ̃]), is one of the seven large mainline railway stations in Paris, France.
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