Place d'Italie (Paris Métro)

Place d'Italie is an underground station of the Paris Métro. It is located in the 13th arrondissement below the circular 'Place d'Italie and is the meeting point of the Métro lines 5, 6 and 7 The station is an important transfer hubs in the south of Paris. With about 36,000 passengers a day counted the station in 2004 to the ten busiest stations of the metro.

The station was (now Line 6) put into operation on April 24, 1906 opening of the southern extension of line 2 Sud. This wrong time on the Passy- Place d'Italie section. On June 2, 1906, the station of Line 5 was put into operation and those united in October 1907 Line 2 Sud, worbei the line designation was abandoned two Sud. The new line 5 Étoile - Gare du Nord was for many years the longest in the network. On March 1, 1909, the line was opened between the 6 stations Place d' Italie and the nation, the portion of line 5 to the Étoile was finally assigned her during the 1931 Colonial Exhibition temporarily and on 6 October 1942. On February 15, 1930, the station part of the line 7 was added, which was temporarily traveled to 25 April 1931 by the line 10.

The station of Line 5 has a curved central platform on which other two are straight and have side platforms. While the stations of lines 5 and 6 in addition to staggered below the southern part of the square and the Boulevard Vincent Auriol, whose investments are at right angles under drive from the line 7, the station part is under the center of the square.

The line 5 has an end loop under the square, which they shared with the line 2 Sud to May, 1907. You will no longer drive onto those trains turn dull behind the station on the track T. Between all three lines exist crossovers, branch off from the loop track to operational workshop Ateliers d' Italie from.