Château Rouge: station history
Served by: metro line 4.
Did you know?
The station bears the name of the Château Rouge district, in the 18th arrondissement. It lies under boulevard Barbès, at the level of rue Custine and rue Poulet, under place du Château-Rouge, on line 4. The cosmopolitan district and the market on rue Poulet drew so many visitors that the two original entrances were saturated; major works enlarged the ticket hall, from 40 to 170 m², and created a third entrance, on boulevard Barbès, for about 10 million euros.
Anecdote
A giant fresco, « Célébrations », by the Cameroonian artist Barthélémy Toguo, decorates the station: two hundred stoneware tiles showing plants and trees escaping from faces. The blue was developed by the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, which also made the tiles. The platforms have screen doors, as part of the automation of line 4.
Around Château Rouge
- Marché Dejean, 250 m away — A lively African and Caribbean market, known for its colourful stalls and exotic produce.
- Square Léon, 400 m away — A small neighbourhood square, a green haven popular with families in a very lively area.
- Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, 450 m away — A Romano-Byzantine basilica crowning Paris from the Butte Montmartre, reachable on foot from this station.