Gare du Nord Train Station, Paris

The Gare du Nord is the largest station in Paris. It opened in 1846 and the building itself was designed by the architect Jacques Hittorf in 1861 in a modern neoclassical style with a majestic facade decorated with 23 statues by famous sculptors. The Gare du Nord provides a large network of rail links to the northern suburbs of Paris (RER), Lille (TGV), Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne (Thalys), London (Eurostar), etc.