A MONUMENT OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY: THE BARBÈS MÉTRO STATION

A DESTINATION MUST BE ACCESSIBLE: AT BARBES TWO LOCAL LINES AND AN EXPRESS LINE INTERSECT

Adapted from an official map

The station itself is an industrial monument and a neighborhood symbol...

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That also provides areas for exhibits and performances and a walkway waiting to be put to use:

• Paintings can hang from the ribbon of steel under the rails:

Les Intruses ("The Women Intruders"), by the photographer Randa Marufi for the Institute of Islamic Cultures, 2020 / zoom

• It overlooks a painted path that is adapted to skateboarding, bicycling, training,  performances and exhibits:  

The Compagnie Gaby Sourire and Faun Arts,

 

Installation by Ange et Dam

• An "urban promenade" uniting the Barbès, La Chapelle and Stalingrad stops was planned in 1919 but covid and hostile media led to abandoning it.

    Map obtained through the link above

1.28 kilometers, launched in 2019 

 The space in August 2022.

For how a similar passage is used

for an annual festivity, please click.

 It waits for a more favorable time.

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Another monument: a movie house of the 1920's