Gare d'Orsay - Paris, France
N 48° 51.629 E 002° 19.568
31U E 450574 N 5412165
The Gare d'Orsay (or d'Orsay Train Station) is now home to the Musée d'Orsay, an art museum, which has a separate Wikipedia listing.
Waymark Code: WMMWGP
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 11/15/2014
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"Gare d'Orsay is a former Paris railway station and hotel, built in 1900 to designs by Victor Laloux, Lucien Magne and Émile Bénard; it served as a terminus for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans (Paris-Orléans Railway). It was the first electrified urban rail terminal in the world, opened 28 May 1900, in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle. After closure as a station, it reopened in December 1986 as the Musée d'Orsay, an art museum. The museum is currently served by the RER station of the same name."
--Wikipedia (
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