Solférino station

Solférino (French pronunciation: [sɔlfeʁino] ⓘ) is a station on line 12 of the Paris Métro in the 7th arrondissement.

It is named after the nearby rue de Solférino, which in turn was named after the Battle of Solferino, a battle fought in 1859 during the Second Italian War of Independence, where the Franco-Piedmontese troops commanded by Napoleon III defeated the Austrians.

The station opened on 5 November 1910 as part of the original section of the Nord-Sud Company's line A between Porte de Versailles and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette.

[4] The statio has three accesses: The station has a standard configuration with 2 tracks surrounded by 2 side platforms.

The lower portion of the side walls are vertical instead of elliptical, as with the other stations constructed by the Nord-Sud company (today on lines 12 and 13).

Original station signage