Campo-Formio: origin of the name and station history
Served by: metro line 5.
Why this name?
The station takes its name from rue de Campo-Formio, which honours the Italian town of Campoformido, then called Campo-Formio, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, where the treaty between Austria and Bonaparte was signed in 1797: France gained, among other things, Belgium, part of the left bank of the Rhine and the Ionian Islands. It opened four days after the first section of line 5; trains had previously run through without stopping. It lies under boulevard de l'Hôpital, level with the Maison des sciences économiques (no. 106) of Panthéon-Sorbonne university.
Anecdote
It is one of the few stations on the network with no seating. In summer 2007 it was the temporary terminus of line 5, while the platforms at Place d'Italie were closed. Its single entrance is a Guimard pavilion listed as a historic monument.
Around Campo-Formio
- Manufacture des Gobelins, 500 m away — A royal workshop founded in the 17th century that still weaves exceptional tapestries for the French state today.
- Place d'Italie, 550 m away — A vast crossroads in the 13th arrondissement, the gateway to Paris's Chinatown.
- Rue Campo-Formio, 240 m away — A quiet street named after the treaty Napoleon signed in 1797, ending the Italian campaign.