Créteil-Préfecture: origin of the name and station history
Served by: metro line 8.
Why this name?
Its name refers to the Val-de-Marne prefecture, about 750 m away; the subtitle « Hôtel de Ville » is misleading, as Créteil town hall is more than 600 m away and you have to cross the Créteil Soleil shopping centre to reach it. An outdoor station on line 8, it is reached by a pedestrian footbridge linking Créteil Soleil to avenue du Docteur-Paul-Casalis. It was the terminus of the line from 1974 to 2011, before Pointe du Lac opened.
Anecdote
It has three tracks framing two island platforms, with trains running on the two side tracks. Nearby, the Val-de-Marne prefecture, a copper-reflecting building set on a mound laid out as a landscaped garden, faces Jean Cardot's Monument de la Déportation. The Lac de Créteil and the Maison des arts et de la culture are close.
Around Créteil-Préfecture
- Lac de Créteil, 1500 m away — An artificial lake created in the 1970s, enhancing this new suburban town.
- Préfecture du Val-de-Marne, 700 m away — A modern administrative building, seat of the Val-de-Marne department.
- Cathédrale de Créteil, 750 m away — A modern cathedral with a vast curved roof, one of the most recent in France.