The métro and other Paris, France Transportation Tips

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Subway/Metro
Getting TO/AROUND: The metro system of Paris is one of the most efficient in Europe (it's said that no point of the city is more than 500 metres far from a metro station), even if it is only the fourth most extended network after London, Moskva and Madrid. It consists of 14 lines for a total of 212.50 kms. Every time I have been to Paris I have always moved by métro.
To travel on metro, buses and trams by RATP, you can buy:
- a single ticket: EUR 1.40 (when I used the metro in 2002 it cost EUR 1.30);
- a "carnet" of 10 tickets: full price EUR 10.50, half price 5.25. I think half price is for young and aged people;
- a "Carte orange", which is a 7-day pass whose price changes according to the areas you want to move within (there are eight from the city centre): areas 1-2 (city centre) EUR 15.40 for a week. It's the pass my parents and I bought when we spent two weeks in Paris in 2003.
For more prices, see the site of RATP reported below.

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Website: http://www.ratp.fr (for tickets), http://de.geocities.com/met_paris/paris.htm (for the map)

'Mode': TO
Category: Train
Getting TO/AROUND: Gare Montparnasse is one of the six terminus railway stations of Paris. TGV trains to Western and South-Western France (Rennes, Nantes, Bordeaux) leave from here.
The building is very modern, in stain and glass. There is a metro station under the railway station, called Montparnasse-Bienvenüe (lines 4, 6, 12, 13).

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Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_Montparnasse