47 Sights in Marseille, France (with Map and Images)
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The Hôtel Daviel is a building built in Marseille between 1743 and 1747 by the Gérard brothers. It is named after the surgeon and ophthalmologist Jacques Daviel, who went to Marseille during the plague of 1720.
The Estaque station is a French railway station on the Paris-Lyon line in Marseille-Saint-Charles, located in the 16th arrondissement at the northwest end of the city of Marseille, in the Bouches-du Department -Rhône, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. She owes her name to the Marseille district that she served, made famous by Paul Cézanne and her painters from 1880 to 1910. The Estaque station being located high enough on the hill, she gave her name to this part from the village: the Estaque-Gare, the lower part being called the Estaque-Plage.
The Palais Longchamp is a monument in the 4th arrondissement of Marseille, France. It houses the Musée des beaux-arts and Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille. The surrounding Longchamp Park is listed by the French Ministry of Culture as one of the Notable Gardens of France.
4. Notre-Dame de la Garde
Notre-Dame de la Garde, known to local citizens as la Bonne Mère, is a Catholic basilica in Marseille, France, and the city's best-known symbol. The site of a popular Assumption Day pilgrimage, it is the most visited site in Marseille. It was built on the foundations of an ancient fort at the highest natural point in Marseille, a 149 m (489 ft) limestone outcropping on the south side of the Old Port of Marseille.
5. Fort Saint-Jean
Fort Saint-Jean is a fortification in Marseille, built in 1660 by Louis XIV at the entrance to the Old Port. Since 2013, it has been linked by two foot-bridges to the historical district Le Panier and to the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations; the latter being the first French national museum to be located outside Paris.
6. Museum of African, Native American and Oceanian Arts
The Museum of African, Oceanian and Amerindian arts, located on the second floor of the Old Charity in the 2nd arrondissement of Marseille, presents works exclusively devoted to works by African, Oceanian and Amerindian continents. On the first floor of the building is the Museum of Mediterranean Archeology. The Museum of African, Oceanian and Amerindian arts reconciles the observation of exposed objects with scientific information on men and societies. There are, in particular, masks from large collections, made up during the 20th century, and which participated in the first exhibitions of these extra-European arts, during the years 1930-1935, associated with the renewal of looks and First ethnographic, ethnological and anthropological studies on these cultures, parallel to modern art. With the Mexican popular arts, the bright colors and the fantastic are everywhere, a fantastic art that inspired many artists and poets in the 20th century and even today.
Wikipedia: Musée des arts africains, océaniens et amérindiens (FR), Website
7. Grotte Cosquer
The Cosquer Cave is located in the Calanque de Morgiou in Marseille, France, near Cap Morgiou. The entrance to the cave is located 37 m (121 ft) underwater, due to the Holocene sea level rise. The cave contains various prehistoric rock art engravings. Its submarine entrance was discovered in 1985 by Henri Cosquer, a professional diver. The underwater passage leading to the cave was progressively explored until 1990 by cave divers without the divers being aware of the archaeological character of the cave. It is only in the last period (1990–1991) of the progressive underwater explorations that the cave divers emerged in the non-submerged part of the cave. The prehistoric paintings were not immediately discovered by the divers to first emerge from the other side of the sump. The cave was named after Henri Cosquer, when its existence was made public in 1991, after three divers became lost in the cave and died.
8. Villa Santa Lucia
Villa Santa Lucia is a villa built in 1860 located in the Roucas-Blanc district, in the 7th arrondissement of Marseille, France. It was the home of the MULLOT family from 1887 to 1905. The one that was then called "the White House" was adorned with caves, pools and terraces on several levels facing the sea. In 1894, it benefited from the know-how of the famous rock gardener Gaspard Gardini. It was sold several times and Mrs. Khan renamed it "La Meunière" in 1922. It was in 1984 that its new owners gave it the name "Villa Santa Lucia". This jewel of Marseille's heritage is listed as a historical monument by prefectural decree of 2 November 2015.
9. Basilique du Sacré-Cœur
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Marseille is one of the minor basilicas of the Roman Catholic Church, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ. It is located in Marseille on Avenue du Prado, in the Rouet district, in the 8th arrondissement. Built in the first half of the twentieth century in a Romano-Byzantine style, it was consecrated on 5 May 1947 by Cardinal Roques, Archbishop of Rennes, and then erected as a minor basilica on 17 September 1997 by Pope John Paul II. The building was built to commemorate the plague of 1720 and to serve as a memorial to the First World War.
10. Chapelle de la Galline
Notre-Dame de la Galline is a historic Roman Catholic chapel in the 16th arrondissement of Marseille, France. An ancient church was built in the 4th century, and subsequently rededicated in 1042. By the 18th century, the entrance of the current building was erected, and the church building was rebuilt in 1845–1850, when a Mass was conducted. Church-goers visited the church to pray for the rain to come down, or for the end of the plague. Meanwhile, the bell turret was built in the 1870s. The whole building was restored in the 1980s.
11. Marégraphe
The Marseille tide gauge is a tide gauge set up in 1883 at number 174 of the Corniche in Marseille, in Anse Calvo. The goal is to determine an origin of altitudes for continental France. The measurements were made continuously from January 1, 1884 to December 31, 1896, over 13 years. On January 1, 1897, the arithmetic average of all the measurements made during these thirteen years determined the mean level of the sea at this place. This mean level has been adopted as the French reference zero altitude.
12. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle
The Muséum d’histoire naturel de Marseille, also known in English as the Natural History Museum of Marseille, is one of the most visited natural history museums in France. It was founded in 1819 by Jean-Baptiste, marquis de Montgrand and Christophe de Villeneuve-Bargemon, prefect of the Bouches-du-Rhône department. It is located in the Palais Longchamp, 4th arrondissement of Marseille, built according to the plans of Henri-Jacques Espérandieu.
Wikipedia: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille (EN), Website
13. Ancien hôtel Roux de Corse
The Roux hotel in Corse is a building located 13 rue Montgrand in the 6th arrondissement of Marseille, in France. This building built around 1745 is the former mansion of the Roux Marseille shipowner in Corsica. Sold in the city of Marseille in 1805, he first served as a residence at the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône, then sheltered in 1891 a high school for young girls. The building is now integrated into the Montgrand high school.
14. Museum of Mediterranean Archaeology
The Museum of Mediterranean Archaeology, which is located on the first floor of the Vieille Charité in Marseille, brings together two departments: Egyptian antiquities and classical antiquities. The regional archaeology, which occupied another room, has been transferred to the Marseille History Museum at the Centre Bourse. On the second floor of La vieille Charité is the Museum of African, Oceanic and Amerindian Arts.
Wikipedia: Musée d'archéologie méditerranéenne (FR), Website
15. Château Saint-Antoine
Château Saint-Antoine is a large bastide house located in the 11th arrondissement of Marseille. The bastide was bought in 1907 by the commander Comte de Robien, who extended it, and gave it its current name. It is also present in everyone's minds through Marcel Pagnol's My Mother's Castle. In 2017, it was bought by the Grand Lodge of France which completely rehabilitated it and transformed it into a Masonic temple.
16. Notre-Dame-des-Accoules
The church of Notre-Dame-des-Accoules is a former medieval collegiate church located in the Accoules district of Marseille, razed to the ground during the Revolution with the exception of the bell tower, which is now classified as a historical monument. In 1820, a crypt and a Calvary were built in front of the back wall of the destroyed church. In 1824, a new church was built to the right of the Calvary.
17. Église Saint-Nicolas-de-Myre
The church of Saint-Nicolas de Myre is the oldest oriental church in Marseille and France, it is, since its inauguration in 1822, the witness of oriental immigration to Marseille and has two originalities, its architecture with its layout and oriental decoration. It is the first church of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. The Divine Liturgy, of the Byzantine rite, is celebrated in Arabic and French.
18. Musée Regards de Provence
The Regards de Provence Museum is a museum created in Marseille in 2013 by the Regards de Provence Foundation in the former sanitary station of the port of Marseille. Its collection, built up by private patrons, consists of 850 works of art from the modern era to the present day, brought together to promote the artistic and cultural heritage of Marseille, Provence and the Mediterranean.
19. Église Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel
The church of the Grands-Carmes is located in the 2nd arrondissement of Marseille in the square of the same name which is located between the places Jules-Guesde and Sadi-Carnot, on a hillock to which it gave its name. It was classified as a Historic Monument by decree of 20 January 1983 for its interior and listed as a Historic Monument for its facades and roofs on the same date.
20. Caves Saint-Sauveur
The Saint-Sauveur cellars are an underground building located in the 2nd arrondissement of Marseille, France. The cellars are located under the Place de Lenche, on the site of the former abbey of the nuns of Saint-Sauveur. The complex was classified as a historical monument in 1840. There are no exterior remains, as the remaining foundations have been backfilled.
21. Église Saint-Louis
The Église Saint-Louis is a historic Roman Catholic church in the 15th arrondissement of Marseille, France. It was designed in the Bauhaus architectural style by Jean-Louis Sourdeau, with additional sculptures designed by Carlo Sarrabezoles. Its construction was completed in 1935. It has been listed as an official historical monument since December 14, 1989.
22. Baume Loubière
Located in the 13th arrondissement of Marseille, 2 km north-west of the town of Château-Gombert, Loubière balm was discovered in 1829 by J. Simonet. It is also called the Loubière cave or the Loubière caves, Loubière can be written with or without an "s". The Chaîne de l'Étoile where the cave is located is rich in prehistoric sites.
23. Grotte-ermitage des Aygalades
The cave-hermitage of Aygalades or cave-hermitage of the Carmelites is one of the first settlements of the Carmelite congregation in France. It is located in the northern districts of Marseille, overlooking the A7 motorway towards La Viste. It has been listed as a historic monument since 31 August 1992 and listed on 2 September 1994.
24. Église Saint-Cannat-les-Prêcheurs
The church of Saint-Cannat, located on the Place des Prêcheurs in Marseille, near the bottom of the Rue de la République, was founded by the Friars Preachers, the Order of Saint Dominic. It is dedicated to Saint Cannat, bishop of Marseilles around 486, after whom a locality in the department is named. Feast day is October 15th.
25. Monument commémoratif au roi Alexandre Ier de Yougoslavie et à Louis Barthou
The Memorial to King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou is a monument located in the 6th arrondissement of Marseille, France, commemorating the assassination of King Alexander I and Louis Barthou. It is the work of the architect Gaston Castel and the sculptors Antoine Sartorio, Louis Botinelly and Élie-Jean Vézien.
Wikipedia: Monument commémoratif au roi Alexandre Ier de Yougoslavie et à Louis Barthou (FR)
26. Château Borély
The Château Borély is a chateau in the southern part of Marseille, France. Associated with Borély park and Marseille Borély golf course, it has been listed as a historical monument since 1936, and has housed the Museum of Decorative Arts, Earthenware and Fashion since Marseille-Provence 2013 with its rich original decor.
27. Colonne du Dévouement ou colonne de la Peste
The Great Plague of Marseille, also known as the Plague of Provence, was the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in Western Europe. Arriving in Marseille, France, in 1720, the disease killed over 100,000 people: 50,000 in the city during the next two years and another 50,000 to the north in surrounding provinces and towns.
28. Unité d'Habitation - Cité Radieuse
The Unité d'habitation de Marseille — also known as the Cité radieuse de Marseille, Cité radieuse, Le Corbusier or more colloquially La Maison du fada — is a residence built between 1947 and 1952 by the architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known by the pseudonym Le Corbusier (1887-1965).
29. Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean
The Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean (MUCEM) is a national museum located in Marseille, inaugurated by President François Hollande, on June 7, 2013, while Marseille was European capital of culture. The construction of the building is due to the French architect Rudy Ricciotti.
30. Oppidum des Baou de Saint-Marcel
The oppidum of the Baou de Saint-Marcel is a fortified Celto-Ligurian Segobrige settlement site, founded in the first quarter of the 6th century BC. and abandoned in the last quarter of the second century B.C. is located in the Saint-Marcel district in the 11th arrondissement of Marseille.
31. Musée des Beaux-Arts
The Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille is one of the main museums in the city of Marseille, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It occupies a wing of the Palais Longchamp, and displays a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 16th to 19th centuries.
Wikipedia: Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille (EN), Website, Flickr
32. Hôtel de Cabre
The house of the Alderman of Cabre, also known as the Hôtel de Cabre, is the oldest house in Marseille. It is located at the corner of Rue de la Bonneterie and Grand-Rue, in the 2nd arrondissement. It should not be confused with the Hôtel de Cabre in Aix-en-Provence.
33. Cathédrale des Saints-Traducteurs de Marseille
The Cathedral of the Holy Translators of Marseille, also known as the Church of Saint-Sahak and Saint-Mesrob in reference to Sahak the Parthian and Mesrop Mashtots, is a religious building of the Armenian Apostolic Church located in the 8th arrondissement of Marseille.
Wikipedia: Cathédrale des Saints-Traducteurs de Marseille (FR)
34. Sainte-Marie-Madeleine-des-Chartreux
The church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine des Chartreux is located on Place Edmond-Audran in the 4th arrondissement of Marseille. Before being a parish church, this church was the chapel of a monastery of the Carthusian order that gave its name to the neighborhood.
35. Oppidum de Verduron
The Oppidum de Verduron is an oppidum in the 15th arrondissement of Marseille, Southern France. It was built in the Iron Age. It was discovered in 1906, but not fully excavated until 1911. It has been listed as a historical monument since 24 August 2004.
36. Grotte Cosquer
Cosquer Méditerranée is an interpretation centre located at the Villa Méditerranée, in Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhône region. Opened to the public on June 4, 2022, it houses a partial replica of the Cosquer Cave and its most striking cave works.
37. Bastide de Tour Sainte
The Bastide de Tour Sainte is the eastern part of the former Domaine de Tour Sainte created in the 1850s by Amédée Armand, an industrialist from Marseille. It borders the Chemin des Bessons, on the even-numbered side, in the Sainte-Marthe district.
38. Mémorial de La Marseillaise
"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin".
39. Alose submarine
French submarine Alose (Q33) (“Shad”) is a Naïade-class submarine of the Romazotti type. She was built for the French Navy at the beginning of the 20th century. Alose remained in service until just prior to the outbreak of World War I.
40. Maison du Figaro
The Maison du Figaro is a historic building in the 1st arrondissement of Marseille in France. It was designed by architect Pierre Pavillon, and it was completed in 1675. It has been listed as an official historical monument since 1992.
41. Fort Saint-Nicolas
Fort Saint-Nicolas is a fort overlooking the Old Port of Marseille. It was built between 1660 and 1664 by the Chevalier de Clerville on the orders of Louis XIV in order to subdue the spirit of independence of the city of Marseille.
42. Pierre Puget
Pierre Paul Puget was a French Baroque painter, sculptor, architect and engineer. His sculpture expressed emotion, pathos and drama, setting it apart from the more classical and academic sculpture of the Style Louis XIV.
43. Hôtel Louvre et Paix (ancien) ou Hôtel dit de La Marine
The Hôtel Louvre et Paix is a historic building in Marseille, France. Dedicated in 1863 as a luxury hotel, it was used by the Kriegsmarine during World War II. It now houses city administration offices and a C&A store.
44. Église Saint-Pie X
The Church of the Mission of France is a church built at the end of the 17th century and renovated in the 19th century. It is located at 44 rue du Tapis-Vert, in the 1st arrondissement of Marseille, in France.
45. Escalier Saint-Charles
The monumental staircase of the Marseille-Saint-Charles train station, which gives direct access to the Boulevard d'Athènes, was inaugurated by the President of the Republic Gaston Doumergue on 24 April 1927.
Wikipedia: Escalier monumental de la gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles (FR)
46. Maison Gaston Castel
The Gaston Castel House is a personal house built by the architect Gaston Castel in 1924. Located in the Cinq-Avenues district, in the 4th arrondissement of Marseille, France, it was sold at auction in 1989.
47. Le Silo
The CEPAC Silo is a concert hall in Marseille inaugurated in 2011 and located in Euroméditerranée, a district of the 2nd arrondissement. It used to be a former industrial building in the city of Marseille.
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