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Marseille

Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur november 2022

Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, november 2022.

Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur december 2018

Marseille known in antiquity as Masalia, Massalia or Massilia, is the second largest city in France, after Paris.

Located on the southeast coast of France, Marseille is France's largest city on the Mediterranean coast and largest commercial port.

Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, december 2018.

Marseille Cathedral (French: Cathedrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure de Marseille or Cathedrale de la Major)
is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in Marseille.

Two bays of the nave were demolished in the 1850s, when the new cathedral was built.
It was built in the 12th century in a simple romanesque style.

The present cathedral, the "Nouvelle Major", was built on an enormous scale in the Byzantine and Roman Revival styles.

The foundation stone was laid by Emperor Napoleon III in 1852 and the first service was held in 1893.

Cathedrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure de Marseille, "Nouvelle Major", Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, december 2018.

Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, december 2018.

Cathedrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure de Marseille, "Nouvelle Major", Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, december 2018.

The MuCEM, Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations, Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, december 2018.

The MuCEM, Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations, with Notre Dame de la Majeur on the right.

The MuCEM, Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations, Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, december 2018.

Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, december 2018.

Vieux-Port de Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, december 2018.

The Old Port of Marseille (French: Vieux-Port de Marseille, is at the end of the Canebiere, the major street of Marseille.

The Old Port of Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, december 2018.

Vieux-Port de Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, december 2018.

Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur april 2017

Notre-Dame de la Garde (literally: Our Lady of the Guard), in French for Marseille's citizens "la bonne mere" (the good (holy) mother),
is a Catholic basilica in Marseille, and the city's best-known symbol. The site of a popular
Assumption Day pilgrimage, it was the most visited site in Marseille.

Notre-Dame de la Garde Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, april 2017.

Passion of Christ in front of the Basilica, Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, april 2017.

Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, april 2017.

Old Port Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, april 2017.

Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur march 2016

Historically, the economy of Marseille was dominated by its role as a port of the French Empire,
linking the North African colonies of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia with Metropolitan France.

The Old Port was replaced as the main port for trade by the Port de la Joliette (now part of Marseille-Fos Port)
during the Second Empire and now contains restaurants, offices, bars and hotels and functions mostly as a private marina.

The economy of Marseille and its region is still linked to its commercial port, the first French port and the fifth
European port by cargo tonnage, which lies north of the Old Port and eastern in Fos-sur-Mer.

Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, march 2016.

The majority of the port and docks, which experienced decline in the 1970s after the oil crisis,
have been recently redeveloped with funds from the European Union.

Fishing remains important in Marseille and the food economy of Marseille is fed by the local catch;
a daily fish market is still held on the Quai des Belges of the Old Port.

Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, march 2016.

Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur May 2013

Marseille is the capital of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region, as well as the capital of the Bouches-du-Rhone department.

Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur May 2013.

Its inhabitants are called Marseillais in French and Marselhes in Occitan.

The city's main thoroughfare, the wide boulevard called the Canebiere, stretches eastward from the Old Port (Vieux Port) to the Reformes quarter.

Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur May 2013

The Old Port of Marseille (French : Vieux-Port) is located at the end of the Canebiere.

It has been the natural harbour of Marseille since antiquity and is now the main popular place in Marseille, mainly pedestrian since 2013.
Since 2013, for the European Capital of Culture, the Old Port is mainly destinated to pedestrians, it has been renewed
as a large mineral public square following an international concourse won by Michel Desvigne Paysagistes.

The main commercial centre of the city intersects with the Canebiere at rue St Ferreol and the Centre Bourse (the main shopping mall). PIC: Me at the Old Port. May 2013

Until the nineteenth century the Old Port remained the centre of maritime activity in Marseille.

Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur May 2013

In the Middle Ages the land at the far end of the port was used to cultivate hemp (or cannabis) for the local
manufacture of rope for mariners, which is the origin of the name of the main thoroughfare of Marseille, the Canebiere.

Today the Old Port is used as a marina, as a terminal for local boat trips and hosts a local fish market.

In 600 BC, Greek settlers from Phocaea landed in the Lacydon, a rocky Mediterranean cove, now the site of the Old Port of Marseille.

The great St. Victor's Abbey was gradually built between the third and ninth centuries on the hills to the south of the Old Port, on the site of an Hellenic burial ground.

Further out in the Bay is the Frioul archipelago which comprises four islands, one of which is If.

If, is the location of Chateau d'If, made famous by the Dumas novel The Count of Monte Cristo.

Two large forts flank the entrance to the Old Port, Fort Saint-Nicolas on the south side and Fort Saint-Jean on the north.

Notre-Dame de la Garde Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur May 2013.

This Neo-Byzantine church was built by the architect Henri-Jacques Esperandieu on the foundations of an ancient fort
located at the highest natural point in Marseille, a 149 m (490 ft) limestone outcrop on the south side of the Old Port.

The basilica consists of a lower church, or crypt, in the Romanesque style carved from the rock,
as well as an upper church of Neo-Byzantine style decorated with mosaics.

La Navette de Marseille is a small hard biscuit in the shape of a boat, flavoured with orange blossom.