Alma - Marceau (Paris Métro)

Infobox Paris metro
Name=Alma - Marceau
Day=27 May
Year=1923
Access=
Municipality=the 8th arrondissement of Paris
Zone=1
Next=
X=90
Y=67

Alma - Marceau is a station of the Paris Métro, named after the Pont de l'Alma (Alma Bridge) and Avenue Marceau.

The Battle of Alma was a Franco-British victory against the Russians in the Crimean War in 1854. General François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers (1769–1796) fought the Revolt in the Vendée during the French Revolution.

Places of interest

*The Flame of Liberty, a counterpart to the flame of the Statue of Liberty was placed in the Place d'Alma in 1987.
*Diana, Princess of Wales died as a result of a car crash in the tunnel under the Pont d'Alma in 1997.
*The sculpture of a Zouave is attached to the upstream side of the Pont de l'Alma. Parisians measure the depth of floods by noting the proportion of the statue that is under water.
*Near the station are the cabaret of the Crazy Horse Saloon and the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris in the Palais de Tokyo.
*The Place d'Alma is at the western end of the Cours Albert Ier et Cours La Reine, which contain some statues commemorating characters symbolising the relations between France and other countries.
*The starting point of visits to the Paris sewers in the vicinity of the Eiffel Tower is on the left bank of the Seine.

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