Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Marseille, France

The Monument to the Heroes and Victims of the Sea is a memorial located in the 7th arrondissement of Marseille, France.

Wikipedia: Monument aux héros et victimes de la mer (FR)

The Palais du Pharo is a palace in Marseille, Southern France, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, west of the Old Port (Vieux-Port). It was built in Second Empire style by Emperor Napoleon III for Empress Eugénie, starting in 1858. However, at the fall of the Second Empire in 1870, the building had just been finished. Nowadays, the palace and its gardens are used for events, with the park open to the public.

Wikipedia: Palais du Pharo (EN), Website

The Notre-Dame-des-Accoules church is a former medieval collegiate church located in the Accoules district of Marseille, razed 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. From 1824, a new church was built to the right of the Calvary.

Wikipedia: Église Notre-Dame-des-Accoules (FR)

The Chapel of the White Penitents of the Holy Spirit is a former chapel located in the 2nd arrondissement of Marseille, France, listed as a historical monument since December 2, 1932.

Wikipedia: Chapelle des Pénitents blancs du Saint-Esprit (FR)

The Caves Saint-Sauveur is 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 whole was classified as a historical monument in 1840. No external remains remain, the remaining foundations having been backfilled.

Wikipedia: Caves Saint-Sauveur (FR)

The Roman Theatre of Marseille is a theatre building located in the Hôtel de Ville district.

Wikipedia: Théâtre grec de Marseille (FR)

The Greek urban block of the Collège du Vieux-Port is a historical monument in Marseille. It preserves remains dating back to the foundation of the Phocaean city, Greek Marseille, in the sixth century BC.

Wikipedia: Îlot urbain grec du collège du Vieux-Port (FR)

The Church of Saint-Laurent is a Provençal Romanesque style church located at 16 esplanade de la Tourette, in the 2nd arrondissement of Marseille, near Fort Saint-Jean, on a hill to which it gave its name. It is the parish of the fishermen of Marseille.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Laurent de Marseille (FR)

The Deportation Memorial is a museum located in the 2nd arrondissement of Marseille.

Wikipedia: Mémorial des déportations (FR), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Fort Saint-Jean (Marseille) (EN)

The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (Mucem) is a national museum located in Marseille, inaugurated by President François Hollande on 7 June 2013, when Marseille was European Capital of Culture. The construction of the building is the work of the French architect Rudy Ricciotti.

Wikipedia: Mucem (FR), Website

Cosquer Méditerranée is an interpretation centre located at the Villa Méditerranée, in Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhône. Opened to the public on June 4, 2022, it houses a partial replica of the Cosquer cave and its most significant cave works.

Wikipedia: Cosquer_Méditerranée (FR), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Musée Regards de Provence (FR), Website

La Vieille Major is the former cathedral of Marseille. It was built from the twelfth century on the site of a first church dating from the fifth century.

Wikipedia: Église de la vieille Major (FR)

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

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 Museum of History of Marseille 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

The Tour des Trinitaires is a tower - a former bell tower of a convent dating from the early thirteenth century - located on rue de la Vieille-Tour, in the 2nd arrondissement of Marseille, France. The city of Marseille owns the building.

Wikipedia: Tour des Trinitaires (FR)

The Chapel of the Black Penitents, or Chapel of the Good Jesus, located at No. 6 Rue du Bon-Jésus in the 2nd arrondissement of Marseille, France, was classified as a historical monument in 1931.

Wikipedia: Chapelle des Pénitents noirs (Marseille) (FR)

The Grands-Carmes church is located in the 2nd arrondissement of Marseille in place of the same name which is between the places Jules-Guesde and Sadi-Carnot, on a mound to which it gave its name. It was classified as a historic monument by decree of January 20, 1983 for its interior and inscribed historic monument for its facades and roofs on the same date.

Wikipedia: Église des Grands-Carmes (Marseille) (FR)

Place Jules-Guesde is a street in the city of Marseille.

Wikipedia: Porte d'Aix (FR)

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 Marseille around 486, after whom a locality in the department is named. Feast day on October 15.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Cannat (FR)

The Jardin des Vestiges is a garden containing the archaeological remains of the ancient port of Marseille, France.

Wikipedia: Jardin des Vestiges (EN)

The Halle Puget is a building located near the Porte d'Aix in Marseille.

Wikipedia: Halle Puget (FR)

The Hôtel Pesciolini is a hôtel particulier in the 1st arrondissement of Marseille, France. It has been listed as an official historical monument since March 8, 1929.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Pesciolini (EN)

"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".

Wikipedia: La Marseillaise (EN)

The Hotel Hubaud is a former mansion located in the 1st arrondissement of Marseille, France.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Hubaud (FR)

The Church of the Mission of France is a church built at the end of the seventeenth century and renovated in the nineteenth century. It is located at 44 rue du Tapis-Vert, in the 1st arrondissement of Marseille, France.

Wikipedia: Église de la mission de France (FR)

Several statues of the Virgin Mary bear the name of "Golden Virgin" including:The Golden Virgin of Marseille, The Golden Virgin of Myans, The Golden Virgin of Amiens.

Wikipedia: Vierge dorée (FR)

The monumental staircase of the Marseille-Saint-Charles 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)

The Saint-Lazare church is located in the 3rd arrondissement of Marseille, at no. 13 rue Saint-Lazare.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Lazare de Marseille (FR)