Château Landon, Metro station in the 10th arrondissement, Paris, France
Château Landon is a metro station on Line 7 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, situated along the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin. It has two side platforms facing each other and is reached through a single street-level entrance.
The station opened in 1910, during the rapid growth of the Paris metro in the early 20th century. It sits along the route of an old Roman road that once linked ancient Lutetia with areas to the north.
The station name comes from the Rue Château-Landon, a street built on land once owned by a family from the town of Château-Landon in Seine-et-Marne. The red benches and the colored lights projected onto the vaulted ceiling give the platform a look that regular users recognize right away.
The station sits close to the Gare de l'Est, one of Paris's main long-distance train stations, which makes switching to other connections straightforward. For visitors arriving during the day, the surrounding streets are easy to walk and well signed.
A second exit that the station once had was closed in the early 1990s, leaving just one entrance on the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin. There are also plans to dig new underground walkways connecting this station to the nearby Gare du Nord, which would make it a much larger interchange without changing how it looks above ground.
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