Owned by RATP Fare zone 1 Opened 31 January 1903 | Operated by RATP Address 75010 Paris, France Owner RATP Group | |
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Location Boul. de la Chapelle
× rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis
10th arrondissement of Paris
Île-de-France
France Similar Barbès – Rochechouart, Porte Dauphine, Place de Clichy, Anvers, Pigalle | ||
La Chapelle is a station on Paris Métro Line 2, on the border of the 10th and 18th arrondissements above the Boulevard de la Chapelle. The station is connected to the Gare du Nord and the Gare du Nord Métro station on lines 4 and 5.
The elevated line 2 station was opened on 31 January 1903 as part of the extension of line 2 from Anvers to Bagnolet (now called Alexandre Dumas). It is named after the Place de la Chapelle, which was named after the Barrière de la Chapelle, a gate built for the collection of taxation as part of the Wall of the Farmers-General; the gate was built between 1784 and 1788 and demolished after 1859. The gate was named after a village that was annexed by Paris in 1860 and was named after a chapel to Saint Genevieve built in the 6th century.
There is a connection to Gare du Nord through a tunnel between the metro station and the RER station.