The Chatelet metro station is my least favorite station and many of you who have used the Paris metro, probably will agree with me. It’s way too crowded, way too big (it’s the largest metro station in Paris with 5 different lines, 1, 4, 7, 11, and 14, plus three RER lines, A, and D), and way too confusing when you are switching trains.
I dread taking the 4 line the most. because the station has been under reconstruction for at least six years, and it’s dirty, overcrowded, and smelly and I always grumble about why it takes over six years to reconstruct a metro station. By now it’s taking more time to redo than Notre Dame, and the station is only 123 years old, not 800 years old like Notre Dame.
So, imagine my surprise last week when I walked down the shoddy stairway to line 4 and discovered the most enchanting and colorful murals on the walls. The stunning colors and patterns caught my eye, and I spent about 30 minutes admiring them up close and photographing them.
I discovered that the RATP (the Paris public transportation network) invited street artists Yann l'Outsider, Julien Colombier, Arnaud Liard, and Pastel to create the murals, working on them at night between October 13 and October 31.
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