Gare du Nord stands in Paris, its present building designed by the architect Jacques Ignace Hittorff and built between 1861 and 1865, opening for service in 1864 while construction was still underway. The station's stone and cast-iron facade takes the form of a triumphal arch, its top crowned by an allegorical statue representing Paris herself, flanked by statues of eight further cities served by the station's rail lines, including London, Berlin and Amsterdam, with statues of French cities such as Lille and Amiens set lower on the facade. Gare du Nord has been enlarged and modified repeatedly since its opening, notably in 1889 and again across the 1930s to the 1960s, to keep pace with steadily growing passenger numbers. It now ranks as Europe's busiest railway station, handling upward of 700,000 passengers a day, and a further expansion project underway is intended to enlarge it to roughly two and a half times its earlier size, making it the largest railway station anywhere in Europe.
Facts
Building TypeRailway station terminus 1 Location10th arrondissement, Paris, France 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: France, located there.
Sources
1. Gare du Nord - Wikipedia
Lead section, first sentence
is one of the seven large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France, and Europe's busiest railway station.
Lead section, location clause
Located in the northern part of Paris together with nearby Gare de l'Est in the 10th arrondissement
Current building section
the new station actually opened for service while still under construction during 1864
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Gare du Nord stands in Paris, its present building designed by the architect Jacques Ignace Hittorff and built between 1861 and 1865, opening for service in 1864 while construction was still underway. The station's stone and cast-iron facade takes the form of a triumphal arch, its top crowned by an allegorical statue representing Paris herself, flanked by statues of eight further cities served by the station's rail lines, including London, Berlin and Amsterdam, with statues of French cities such as Lille and Amiens set lower on the facade. Gare du Nord has been enlarged and modified repeatedly since its opening, notably in 1889 and again across the 1930s to the 1960s, to keep pace with steadily growing passenger numbers. It now ranks as Europe's busiest railway station, handling upward of 700,000 passengers a day, and a further expansion project underway is intended to enlarge it to roughly two and a half times its earlier size, making it the largest railway station anywhere in Europe.
View the Source2. Wikidata: Gare du Nord
- Wikidata Q745942, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q745942, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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