Réaumur-Sébastopol: history and sights
Served by: metro lines 3 and 4.
Did you know?
Serves a district once nicknamed the 'press quarter', where numerous 19th-century Parisian newspapers and printing houses were based. The station honours this history with an original décor evoking great inventions and printing.
Anecdote
The nearby Rue Réaumur is named after the physicist who invented, among other things, a thermometer scale still used today.
Around Réaumur-Sébastopol
- Musée des Arts et Métiers, 140 m away — A museum of science and technology founded in 1794, preserving historic French machines and inventions.
- Passage du Grand Cerf, 350 m away — A 19th-century covered passage with a striking glass roof, popular for its designer boutiques.
- Rue Saint-Denis, 350 m away — A historic shopping street, one of the oldest in Paris, still lined with lively shops.