Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Marseille, France

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Number of sights 16 sights
Distance 7.4 km
Ascend 166 m
Descend 186 m

Explore Marseille in France with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in MarseilleIndividual Sights in Marseille

Sight 1: Le Dôme

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Le Dôme de Marseille is an indoor amphitheatre, located in Marseille, France. The capacity of the arena is 8,500 people.

Wikipedia: Le Dôme de Marseille (EN), Website

815 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 2: Sainte-Marie-Madeleine-des-Chartreux

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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.

Wikipedia: Église des Chartreux de Marseille (FR)

675 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 3: Pavillon de Partage des Eaux

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The Chutes-Lavie watershed pavilion, also called Le Tore, in reference to the architectural nomenclature, is a listed civil engineering building belonging to the city of Marseille, France.

Wikipedia: Pavillon de partage des eaux des Chutes-Lavie (FR)

658 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 4: Musée des Beaux-Arts

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Musée des Beaux-ArtsVicuna R from Germany / CC BY-SA 2.0

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

116 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Palais Longchamp

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Palais LongchampAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0

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.

Wikipedia: Palais Longchamp (EN), Website

140 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle

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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

1716 meters / 21 minutes

Sight 7: Hôtel Pesciolini

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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)

142 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Halle Puget

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

Wikipedia: Halle Puget (FR)

292 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Porte d'Aix

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

Wikipedia: Porte d'Aix (FR)

311 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Église Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel

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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.

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

368 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Chapelle des Pénitents Noirs

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

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

98 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Tour des Trinitaires

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The Tour des Trinitaires is a tower 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)

188 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Museum of Mediterranean Archaeology

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Museum of Mediterranean Archaeology inconnu / marque déposée

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

53 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Museum of African, Native American and Oceanian Arts

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Museum of African, Native American and Oceanian ArtsIsmoon (d) 15:58, 6 July 2017 (UTC) / CC BY-SA 4.0

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

499 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 15: Église de la Vieille Major

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The 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)

1284 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 16: Église Saint-Lazare

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The church of Saint-Lazare is located in the 3rd arrondissement of Marseille, at 13 rue Saint-Lazare.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Lazare de Marseille (FR)

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