Notre dame de la garde bezoeken
The main commercial docks were transferred to the Joliette area in the…. Visionary modernist architect Le Corbusier redefined urban living in with the completion of this vertical apartment tower, popularly known as La…. Marseille's most vibrant bohemian quarter centres on Cours Julien, an elongated concrete square shaded by palm trees.
Its close, village…. Donated to the city by the sculptor Jules Cantini on his death in , this 17th-century mansion-turned-museum conceals some superb art behind its….
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‘Notre-Dame de la Garde’ basilica
Fort St-Jean 0. Get In Touch 04 91 13 40 Suggest an edit to this attraction. Lonely Planet's must-see attractions. Perched high above the southern side of the Vieux Port are the six immaculately grassed hectares of the Jardin du Pharo, the grounds of the Palais du…. The basilica is a steep 1km walk from the Vieux Port; alternatively, take bus 60 or the tourist train.
The calanques coves of the coast surrounding Marseille became France's 10th national park in , preserving their astonishing beauty and harbouring an….
Contact Address rue Fort du Sanctuaire. Aix established one of France's first public museums here, on the site of a former Hospitallers' priory, in Nearly years of acquisitions ….
The ‘Bonne Mère’ (Good Mother) and popular beliefs
Intended as much to control the citizens of Marseille as guard them from external threat, Fort St-Jean was built by Louis XIV in on the site of a…. Cours Julien 0. The campanile supports a 9. Musée du Santon 0. Built on the foundations of a 16th-century fort, which was itself an enlargement of a 13th-century chapel, the basilica is ornamented with coloured marble, superb Byzantine-style mosaics, and murals depicting ships sailing under the protection of La Bonne Mère The Good Mother.
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