Metro any metropolis - is its circulatory system. Ride the subway, it's not only the fastest and most affordable way to get from point A to point B, but also the opportunity to see people in their everyday lives, but also the richness of their culture and history. TravelOnline presents seven best underground subway lines in the world.
Where: Moscow, Russia
Features: marble and all the finishing materials were brought to Moscow from all over the Soviet Union
First place in this list contains the Moscow Metro. When you first got into this subway, do not be surprised that you attended feel like you're in a museum. Station, sometimes reminiscent of the royal palaces were decorated, and develop outstanding Soviet architects, painters and sculptors. To date, the Moscow metro is considered the largest in the world, which annually use about 8 million people. The first draft was developed by Metro in 1901, but the first door stations opened in May 1935. During World War II served as a bomb shelter underground.
Tickets: $ 0,35.
Foreigners in the Moscow subway most admired opportunity to visit all the most beautiful station of the most beautiful subway in the world one by one, but still a very cheap ticket.
Where: Paris, France
Features: One of the stations of the third line is devoted to the European Union
All the world knows if the French are really on to something is taken, it will be done beautifully and tastefully. Iron gratings along the metro to the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame became the visiting card of Paris. This masterpiece of Art Nouveau in style - the brainchild of architect Guimard. The most famous Metro Station - Palais Royal-Louvre Museum "and" Abbess ". The Paris subway, along with London, is considered the oldest in the world. The first line was commissioned in 1900.
Ticket cost: ˆ 1,3
in the Paris metro is not accepted to ask "you get out?" Instead, you must move so that the surrounding understand that you want to get to the door. Hurt while others are not desirable.
Where: Washington, USA
Features: extremely long escalators and a "space" style stations
Unlike the New York subway colleagues in Washington is famous for its cleanliness and quietness. Completely corresponds to the image of the Moscow metro: great coverage, semicircular arches and general architecture that makes you feel that hit the city of the future. Sometimes, when a train in a tunnel, there is a feeling that you're on a spaceship. This subway is also famous for its incredibly long escalators in America.
Tickets: $ 1,2-3,6.
Unlike the New York metro area, where one ticket You can even "live underground, in Washington on the one ticket you can go in one direction only, but no rats.
Where: London, England
features: it served as a subway scene in the movie "An American Werewolf in London»
London Underground - is the patriarch of all the underground world. It opened in 1863 and today it is divided into 6 zones. The first is at the center. A distinctive feature of the subway can be called that, not only through the schemes, but also in rail cars of different lines are painted in appropriate colors. Today is not a hike around London is not without descending into the earth.
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