Passy station

Passy
Paris Métro station
Passy metro station in 2022
General information
Location	16th arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France
Coordinates	48°51′27″N 2°17′09″E
Owned by	RATP
Operated by	RATP
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	6 November 1903 (1903-11-06)
Services
Preceding station Paris Métro Following station Trocadéro towards Charles de Gaulle–Étoile Line 6 Bir-Hakeim towards Nation
Location Passy Location within Paris

Passy (French: [pasi] ^ⓘ) is an above-ground station on Line 6 of the Paris Métro in the 16th arrondissement.

The station and its approaches have notable views, as it is built on a viaduct that abuts the slope of the 25 meter high Chaillot hill just below its crest.  Eastbound trains exit the station onto the Pont de Bir-Hakim bridge over the Seine.  Westbound trains enter a tunnel under the hill. The Rue Marietta-Alboni runs under the metro viaduct from the Seine to the foot of the slope, where it becomes two parallel sets of pedestrian stairways to the hilltop, whence the Rue resumes. The station is entered from the stairways.  An upward-moving escalator parallels the northern stairway.

The metro and the stairways bisect the Square Alboni, a chic residential subdivision on the hillside whose properties were assembled and developed between 1894 and 1914. Named, like the Rue, after a famous opera contralto of the day, the Square has several buildings designed by Louis Dauvergne, as well as a (private) park. The Square is not much visible from the platform, but can be seen from the stairways and the streets. Dauvergne also designed several buildings in the Rue Marietta-Alboni above the station as hotels for visitors to the 1900 International Exposition and which were afterwards converted to apartments.

The Rue d’Albion stairway heading downhill from the station.

History

The station opened on 6 November 1903, when the branch of Line 1 from Étoile to Trocadéro that had serviced the 1900 Exposition was extended southward to this new terminus and renamed Line 2 Sud. On 24 April 1906, Line 2 Sud was extended across the Seine and the southern districts of Paris to Place d'Italie.  (In 1907, the line from Etoile to Place d’Italie was incorporated into Line 5; in 1942 it was incorporated into Line 6.)

The station was named after the nearby Quai de Passy, a stretch of the road from Paris to Versailles that during the ancien régime ran near the village of Passy, up on the hill. The Quai de Passy was renamed Avenue du President Kennedy in 1964.

Passenger services

Access

The station has two accesses from Rue Marietta-Alboni, on either side of the station, each divided into two adjoining entrances:

• access 1 - Place du Costa Rica, Maison de Balzac - Musée Georges Clemenceau, equipped with an ascending escalator complemented by fixed stairs to the road, located on the north-east side of the station to the right of Square Alboni;
• access 2 - Avenue du Président Kennedy, Maison de la Radio - Musée du Vin located on the south-west side, near the Consulate General of Algeria.

A corridor passing under the station connects these two accesses to each other.

Station layout

Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	toward Charles de Gaulle – Étoile	← toward Charles de Gaulle–Étoile (Trocadéro)
	toward Nation	→ toward Nation (Bir-Hakeim) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

1F	Mezzanine for platform connection

Street Level

Platforms

Passy is a station of standard configuration. It has two platforms separated by the metro tracks. It has the particularity of being underground at its western end and elevated at the other end, because of the slope of the terrain. The ceiling of the first consists of a metal deck whose beams, silver in colour, are supported by vertical walls, while the rest of the platforms is sheltered by awnings supported by grey pillars. The bevelled white ceramic tiles cover the walls (the elevated part is also covered with bricks drawing geometric patterns on the outside) and the north-west tunnel exit, the opposite tunnel exit being glazed. The advertising frames are made of white ceramic and the name of the station is inscribed in Parisine font on enamelled plaques, projecting on the elevated side. The seats are yellow Motte style and lighting is provided by independent tubes. Access is mid-platform.

Bus connections

The station is served by lines 32 and 72 of the RATP Bus Network.

Nearby

The area is a quiet, well-heeled residential neighborhood, not heavily touristed.

The Pont de Bir-Hakeim (formerly the Pont de Passy) is a road and metro bridge across the Seine completed in 1906 primarily for the metro. In 1986 it was classified an historical monument. Opposite is the Grenelle district in the 15^th arrondissement. The Ile des Cygnes midway in the Seine can be accessed by foot from the bridge.

The Parc de Passy, a public park opened in 2004 on the site of a cleared neighborhood, is 200 meters to the southwest.

The Maison de la Radio et de la Musique (formerly Maison de Radio France) is about 750 meters to the southwest.

The Maison de Balzac, a museum honoring the writer in a house he lived in during the 1840s, is 500 meters to the southwest.

The Palais de Chaillot and the Jardins du Trocedero are about 550 meters to the northeast.

Among the nearby buildings are the Majestic Passy cinema, the Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague high school, the Maison de Balzac and the Musée Clemenceau.

Gallery

• 
  MP 73 rolling stock with green faces prior his renovation at Passy in 1994
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  Line 6 platforms at Passy
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  View towards Passy Viaduct and Bir-Hakeim station from Passy
• MP 73 rolling stock on Line 6 at Passy
• MP 73 rolling stock on Line 6 at Passy