Line 1 · Paris

Line 1 opened on July 19, 1900, between Porte Maillot and Porte de Vincennes, to carry visitors between the sites of the World's Fair. It reached Château de Vincennes in 1934, Pont de Neuilly in 1937 and La Défense in 1992. Conversion to driverless operation ran from 2007 to 2011.

At a glance

Stations: 25
From: La Défense (Grande Arche)
To: Château de Vincennes
Interchanges: 11
Difficulty: Lv 4 of 7
Keystrokes: ~371

Line 1 runs from La Défense (Grande Arche) to Château de Vincennes, 25 stops in the order you type them. Measured in straight lines between the station coordinates, the run is about 16.1 km, an average of 670 m between stops. The longest gap is Gare de Lyon to Reuilly - Diderot, about 980 m, and the shortest is Argentine to Charles de Gaulle - Étoile, about 400 m. The real track is a little longer than these straight lines.

Typing every station name once takes about 371 keystrokes, which is difficulty level 4 of 7 among Paris's lines. The level only compares lines within one city, so use the keystroke count to compare across cities. At the La Défense (Grande Arche) end the game shows La Défense de Paris (statue), and at the Château de Vincennes end, The keep of the Château de Vincennes.

You can change to 11 other lines: Line 2, Line 6, Line 9, Line 13, Line 8, Line 12, Line 7, Line 4, Line 11, Line 14, Line 5. The busiest interchange is Châtelet, where 4 other lines meet this one. The interchange stations are Charles de Gaulle - Étoile, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Champs-Élysées - Clemenceau, Concorde, Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre, Châtelet, Hôtel de Ville, Bastille, and 3 more.

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Along the way

The game shows a nearby place at each station. Some of the ones on Line 1:

La Défense de Paris (statue) at La Défense (Grande Arche). This bronze group by Louis-Ernest Barrias, unveiled in 1883, recalls the defence of Paris during the war of 1870–71. The business district around it later took its name from the monument.Photo: xiquinhosilva · CC BY 2.0
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church, Neuilly-sur-Seine at Pont de Neuilly. The parish church of Neuilly-sur-Seine, with its pedimented front and clock, stands not far from the bridge that gives the station its name.Photo: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lac Inférieur, Bois de Boulogne at Porte Maillot. One of the lakes of the Bois de Boulogne, the large park that begins just west of Porte Maillot: the Lac Inférieur lies further inside the woods.Photo: Polymagou · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Arc de Triomphe at Charles de Gaulle - Étoile. Begun in 1806 for Napoleon and finished in 1836 under Louis-Philippe, the Arc de Triomphe is about 50 m high. It stands at the centre of Place Charles-de-Gaulle, where twelve avenues meet.Photo: A Chinese ID · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Théâtre du Rond-Point at Franklin D. Roosevelt. This neoclassical rotunda was built by Gabriel Davioud to house the Panorama National. It is the only physical remnant of the 1855 World's Fair and became a theatre in 1981.Photo: Ralf.treinen · CC BY-SA 3.0
The obelisk and a Hittorff fountain at Concorde. The Luxor Obelisk, given to France by Egypt in 1829, was raised in Place de la Concorde in 1836. It is flanked by two fountains designed by Hittorff, one of which fills the foreground.Photo: JLZIMMERMANN · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Palais-Royal arcades at Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre. A long arcade runs around the garden of the Palais-Royal, built in the 1630s for Cardinal Richelieu.Photo: Zairon · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tour Saint-Jacques and the Fontaine du Palmier at Châtelet. The Fontaine du Palmier, built in 1808 to celebrate Napoleon's victories, is topped by a gilded Victory. Behind it, the Flamboyant Gothic Tour Saint-Jacques is all that remains of the church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie, destroyed in 1797.Photo: DXR · CC BY-SA 3.0
Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis Church at Saint-Paul. Built between 1627 and 1641 by the Jesuits, the church on Rue Saint-Antoine was the first in Paris to break away from Gothic and adopt the Jesuit Baroque style.Photo: Siren-Com · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Gare de Lyon clock tower at Gare de Lyon. The 67 m clock tower was built for the 1900 World's Fair by Marius Toudoire and rises above the station building.Photo: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Triumph of the Republic at Nation. Inaugurated in 1899, Jules Dalou's bronze group shows the Republic standing on a chariot drawn by lions and guided by the Spirit of Freedom.Photo: Romainbehar · CC0
Notre-Dame Church, Saint-Mandé at Saint-Mandé. The parish church of Saint-Mandé, with its tall square tower and clock faces, in the middle of the town just outside the Paris boundary.Photo: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0