Bel-Air (French pronunciation: [bɛl ɛːʁ]) is a station on Line 6 of the Paris Métro in the 12th arrondissement.

The station was opened on 1 March 1909 with the extension of the line from Place d'Italie to Nation.

[2] The station is in the open air at ground level, but the lines are underground to the north and to the south: the trains ascend to the surface before the station to descend when leaving it.

This layout was required to clear the railway that connected the former Gare de la Bastille railway station (near the current Bastille metro station) to the valley of the Marne, via the former station of Reuilly near Bel-Air.

[2] The old railway to Paris-Bastille was converted in the 1990s into the Promenade Plantée — a 4.5 km (2.8 mi) long elevated garden connecting to the Bastille to the Porte de Saint-Mandé.