Paris has six main train stations (gares), all of which are terminus stations – no rail line cuts through Paris. (RER commuter transit trains and metro subway trains run mostly underground through the city.) On the Right Bank, the Gare du Nord serves northern France, London (with the Eurostar), Belgium, the Netherlands, and northern Germany. The Gare de l’Est just a stone’s throw away, serves the east of France and southern Germany. The Gare de Lyon serves a vast area from Mulhouse to Perpignan, thus including Switzerland, Italy and the entire Mediterranean coast.
On the Left Bank, the Gare d’Austerlitz serves inland destinations along the line Paris-Orléans-Limoges-Toulouse. The Gare Montparnasse serves the entire Atlantic coast up to and including Brittany, and back on the Right Bank, the Gare Saint Lazare serves Normandy.
The two main Paris airports are Orly to the south and Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle to the north of the city.
