Anvers

Anvers Sacré-Cœur
Date opened	October 7 1902
Accesses	68, Boulevard de Rochechouart
Municipality/ Arrondissement	the 9th arrondissement of Paris
Fare zone	1
Next stations
Paris Métro Line 2 Direction Porte Dauphine Direction Nation Pigalle Barbès - Rochechouart
List of stations of the Paris Métro
Location of Metro station

Anvers (Sacré-Cœur) is a station on Line 2 of the Paris Métro on the border of the 9th and the 18th arrondissements in Montmartre.

The station was opened on 21 October 1902 as part of the extension of line 2 from Étoile. It was the eastern terminus of the line until its extension to Bagnolet (now called Alexandre Dumas) on 31 January 1903. The station is named after the Place de Anvers and the city of Antwerp (Anvers in French).

The station is built under the Boulevard de Rochechouart, which was built on the route of the the Wall of the Farmers-General, built to enforce the collection of taxation between 1784 and 1791 and demolished in the 19th century. It is the only station on line 2 between Charles de Gaulle - Étoile and Nation that it not built on the site of a gate (French: barrière) of the wall, which became important intersections and thus logical places for stations. Instead it was placed as close to the foot of the Montmartre funicular as possible. Nevertheless the Barrière de Rochechouart was nearby to the east at the junction of the Boulevard de Rochechouart and the Rue de Rochechouart.

Nearby are the hill of Montmartre and the Basilica of the Sacré-Cœur

Layout

Side Platform

towards Porte Dauphine

towards Nation

Side Platform

Station sign

Paris portal

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Coordinates: 48°52′59″N 2°20′41″E / 48.883007°N 2.344849°E / 48.883007; 2.344849