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Marseille itinerary

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  1. 1

    The Vieux-Port - Marseille's Working Harbour and Natural Starting Point

    Marseille grew out of this rectangular inlet. Greek sailors from Phocaea landed here around 600 BC and the harbour has been in continuous use ever since, which makes it one of the oldest working ports in Europe. The…

    Address
    Quai du Port, 13002 Marseille
    Nearest transit
    Vieux-Port Hotel de Ville station (Metro M1), exit directly onto the quay, 1-min walk
  2. 2

    Basilique Notre-Dame de la Garde - The Hilltop Basilica Above the City

    Basilique Notre-Dame de la Garde sits on a limestone outcrop 154 metres above the water, and the gilded statue of the Virgin on its bell tower adds another 11 metres. Locals call her la Bonne Mere. The current…

    Address
    Rue Fort du Sanctuaire, 13006 Marseille
    Nearest transit
    Estrangin Prefecture station (Metro M1), then RTM bus 60 to the Notre-Dame de la Garde terminus, 4-min walk
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    Le Panier - The Oldest Quarter and Its Street Art

    Le Panier climbs the slope above the north quay, on the ground where the Greek settlement of Massalia began. The lanes are narrow, steep and mostly stepped, so leave wheeled luggage at the bottom. Rue du Panier and Rue…

    Address
    Place des Moulins, 13002 Marseille
    Nearest transit
    Vieux-Port Hotel de Ville station (Metro M1), 6-min walk uphill via Rue de la Prison
  4. 4

    MuCEM and Fort Saint-Jean - Mediterranean Museum at the Harbour Mouth

    The Musee des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Mediterranee opened in 2013, the year Marseille held the European Capital of Culture title. Rudy Ricciotti designed the main J4 building as a dark concrete cube wrapped…

    Address
    7 Promenade Robert Laffont, 13002 Marseille
    Nearest transit
    Joliette station (Metro M2, tram T2 and T3), 8-min walk along the Esplanade J4
  5. 5

    Calanques National Park - Limestone Inlets South of the City

    Calanques National Park runs 20 kilometres along the coast between Marseille and Cassis, protecting a chain of white limestone inlets cut by clear turquoise water. It became France's tenth national park in 2012 and…

    Address
    Boulevard de Luminy, 13009 Marseille
    Nearest transit
    Rond-Point du Prado station (Metro M2), then RTM bus 21 to the Luminy terminus, 15-min walk to the trailhead
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    Chateau d'If and the Frioul Islands - The Prison Fortress Offshore

    Francois I ordered a fortress on the islet of If in 1524 as a harbour defence, and within decades it had become a state prison. Alexandre Dumas set the imprisonment of Edmond Dantes here in The Count of Monte Cristo…

    Address
    Embarcadere Frioul If, 1 Quai de la Fraternite, 13001 Marseille
    Nearest transit
    Vieux-Port Hotel de Ville station (Metro M1), 3-min walk to the Frioul If Express pier
  7. 7

    La Corniche and the Vallon des Auffes - The Coast Road and Its Fishing Cove

    The Corniche President John Fitzgerald Kennedy runs five kilometres along the shore from the Vieux-Port to the Plages du Prado, and one stretch of its seafront bench is claimed as the longest in the world at roughly…

    Address
    163 Corniche President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 13007 Marseille
    Nearest transit
    RTM bus 83 from the Vieux-Port to the Vallon des Auffes stop, 2-min walk down the staircase
  8. 8

    Palais Longchamp - Monumental Waterworks and Two Museums

    Palais Longchamp is a water monument before it is a palace. It went up between 1862 and 1869 to celebrate the Canal de Marseille, which finally brought Durance river water to a city worn down by repeated droughts and a…

    Address
    Boulevard Jardin Zoologique, 13004 Marseille
    Nearest transit
    Cinq Avenues Longchamp station (Metro M1) or tram T2, 3-min walk
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    Marche des Capucins in Noailles - The City's Everyday Food Market

    The Marche des Capucins trades six days a week on a small square behind the Canebiere, and it is where Marseille shops rather than where it poses. Noailles has been called the belly of the city for a century. Stalls…

    Address
    24 Place des Capucins, 13001 Marseille
    Nearest transit
    Noailles station (Metro M2, tram T2 and T3), 1-min walk
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    Cathedrale La Major - The Striped Cathedral at the Water's Edge

    Cathedrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure, known locally as La Major, was built between 1852 and 1893 in a Neo-Byzantine style, using alternating bands of green Florentine stone and white Cassis limestone. It measures 142 metres…

    Address
    Place de la Major, 13002 Marseille
    Nearest transit
    Joliette station (Metro M2, tram T2 and T3), 6-min walk

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