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The LGV Méditerranée (French: Ligne à Grande Vitesse; English: Mediterranean high-speed line) is a 250-kilometre-long (160-mile) French high-speed rail line running from north to south between Saint-Marcel-lès-Valence, Drôme and Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, also featuring a connection to Nîmes, Gard to the west.
The railway from Paris to Marseille is an 862-kilometre long railway line, that connects Paris to the southern port city of Marseille, France, via Dijon and Lyon. The railway was opened in several stages between 1847 and 1856, when the final section through Lyon was opened. [ 2 ]
The LGV PACA on a map of France (bottom right) The LGV Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur , also referred to as the LGV PACA and LGV Côte d'Azur , is a French high-speed rail project intended to extend the LGV Méditerranée which ends in Marseille toward the French Riviera .
Marseille is the second-most populous city in France, after Paris, with 873,076 inhabitants in 2021. [7] Marseille with its suburbs and exurbs create the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis , with a population of 1,911,311 at the 2021 census.
Aix-en-Provence TGV or simply Aix TGV (French: Gare d'Aix-en-Provence TGV) is a high-speed railway station on the LGV Méditerranée located on the municipal border between Aix-en-Provence and Cabriès, Bouches-du-Rhône, Southern France.
LGV Sud-Est (Paris Gare de Lyon to Lyon-Perrache), the first LGV (opened 1981) [10] LGV Atlantique (Paris Gare Montparnasse to Tours and Le Mans) (opened 1990) LGV Rhône-Alpes (Lyon to Valence) (opened 1992) LGV Nord (Paris Gare du Nord to Calais) (opened 1993) LGV Interconnexion Est (LGV Sud-Est to LGV Nord Europe, east of Paris) (opened 1994)
Lyon [c] (Franco-Provençal: Liyon) is the second-largest city in France by urban area and the third largest by city limits. [14] It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of Paris, 278 km (173 mi) north of Marseille, 113 km (70 mi) southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, 58 km (36 mi) northeast of Saint-Étienne.
Marseille is the second largest city in France after Paris, and has the third largest metropolitan population, behind those of Paris and Lyon respectively. [ 9 ] Nice is host to the second-largest population concentration in the region, with a city population of 344,875 and an urban population of 1,005,230, making it the fifth-most populous ...