Neuilly–Porte Maillot station

The Porte Maillot station serves as a vital transition point between the historic heart of Paris and the modern business district of La Defense. Its history begins in nineteen hundred, when the original station opened as the western terminus of the first Paris Metro line. At that time, the station featured a circular loop that allowed trains to reverse direction without the driver needing to switch ends, a clever piece of early twentieth-century engineering.