page_title: Abbesses (Paris Métro)
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Abbesses (Paris Métro) / Architecture
context_page_description: Abbesses is a station on Paris Métro Line 12, in the Montmartre district and the 18th arrondissement. Abbesses is the deepest station in the Paris Métro, at 36 metres below ground, and is located on the western side of the butte of Montmartre. Access to the platforms is occasionally by elevators, but they are typically accessed by decorated stairs.
context_section_description: The station's entrance, designed by Hector Guimard (1867–1942), is one of only two remaining glass-covered "dragonfly" entrances, known as édicules (the other is located at Porte Dauphine, while a replica exists at Châtelet). Though a Guimard original, the édicule at Abbesses was originally located at Hôtel de Ville and was transferred to its current location in 1974. The entrance is technically anachronistic, since line 12 of the Paris metro was built by a competing firm, the Nord-Sud Company, which did not hire Guimard but engaged other architects to design its stations and station entrances.
caption: The Hector Guimard-designed édicule
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