Parc (Charleroi Metro)
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Parc is a Charleroi Metro station, located in downtown Charleroi
, in fare zone 1. It is an underground station featuring a central platform, with street access at both ends.
Interior decoration, themed around the Lucky Luke
Belgian comics
character, features a fresco of the comics main characters on one side, and a short comics strip depicting a train attack by the Daltons
on the other side. There's also a Lucky Luke statue outside of the station, near the park's eastern entrance.
Parc is a dead-end station (terminus of lines 55
and 88
), where trams arrive from Janson on the western side of the central platform, then park in a short tunnel section south of the station, before coming back in the station for departure on the eastern side of the platform. Parc will no longer be a terminus when current works to finish the downtown loop are completed.
The station name (French for Park) comes from the adjacent municipal park.
Charleroi
Charleroi is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. , the total population of Charleroi was 201,593. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of and had a total population of 522,522 as of 1 January 2008, ranking it as...
, in fare zone 1. It is an underground station featuring a central platform, with street access at both ends.
Interior decoration, themed around the Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke is a Belgian comics series created by Belgian cartoonist, Maurice De Bevere better known as Morris, the original artist, and was for one period written by René Goscinny...
Belgian comics
Belgian comics
Belgian comics are a distinct subgroup in the comics history, and played a major role in the development of European comics, alongside France with whom they share a long common history...
character, features a fresco of the comics main characters on one side, and a short comics strip depicting a train attack by the Daltons
The Daltons (Lucky Luke)
The Daltons are fictional outlaws who regularly appear in the Lucky Luke comic book series and are recurrent villains. They were created by Morris and writer René Goscinny...
on the other side. There's also a Lucky Luke statue outside of the station, near the park's eastern entrance.
Parc is a dead-end station (terminus of lines 55
Charleroi Metro line 55
Line 55 is a line on the Charleroi Metro in Belgium operated by TEC Charleroi, running from Parc station in downtown Charleroi to Gilly , via the eastern part of the downtown loop....
and 88
Charleroi Metro line 88
Line 88 is a line on the Charleroi Metro in Belgium operated by TEC Charleroi, running from Parc station in downtown Charleroi to Anderlues , via the northern part of the downtown loop....
), where trams arrive from Janson on the western side of the central platform, then park in a short tunnel section south of the station, before coming back in the station for departure on the eastern side of the platform. Parc will no longer be a terminus when current works to finish the downtown loop are completed.
The station name (French for Park) comes from the adjacent municipal park.
Nearby points of interest
- Queen AstridAstrid of SwedenAstrid of Sweden was Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Leopold III.-Early life:Princess Astrid of Sweden was born in Stockholm on 17 November 1905...
municipal park .
- Charleroi courthouse.
- Schools : Collège du Sacré-Coeur and Athénée Royal Vauban.