Montparnasse-Bienvenüe: history and sights
Served by: metro lines 4, 6, 12 and 13.
Did you know?
Named in honour of Fulgence Bienvenüe, the engineer who designed the Paris metro. The area is dominated by the Montparnasse Tower, one of the few skyscrapers in central Paris, long the tallest tower in Europe when it was completed in 1973.
Anecdote
Fulgence Bienvenüe is nicknamed the 'father' of the Paris metro.
Audio guide
An audio guide for this station is available in the MétroScope app.
Around Montparnasse-Bienvenüe
- Musée de la Libération de Paris, 1200 m away — A museum tracing the Resistance and the Liberation of Paris through the stories of Marshal Leclerc and Jean Moulin.
- Musée Bourdelle, 230 m away — The studios and gardens where sculptor Antoine Bourdelle lived and worked, preserving over five hundred of his plasters, marbles and bronzes.
- Tour Montparnasse, 50 m away — A 210-metre skyscraper, one of the tallest in Paris, offering a 360° panorama over the whole capital from its rooftop.
- Cimetière du Montparnasse, 600 m away — A historic cemetery holding the graves of Baudelaire, Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, a haven of calm in the heart of Paris.
- Jardin Atlantique, 300 m away — A suspended garden built above the tracks of Gare Montparnasse, an unexpected green space in the middle of Paris.
- Mémorial du Maréchal Leclerc et de la Libération de Paris, 150 m away — A museum in the Jardin Atlantique, tracing the 1944 Liberation of Paris, where Leclerc received the German surrender.