The regional capital and the surrounding area provide many contrasts. There is the intense business activity and life of Marseille and its suburbs, including the Marseille-Provence Airport, but also the hills filled with memories of the famous writer Marcel Pagnol, the beach at La Ciotat, and the unspoilt calanques or rocky creeks right in the heart of the city. .

Marseille, the city with a hundred districts

"Aimer Marseille c'est choisir la vie"
GABRIEL AUDISIO

"Attentive, elle écoute la voix du vaste monde, et forte de son expérience,
elle envisage en notre nom, la conversation avec la terre entière"
ALBERT LONDRES

Marseille reflects all aspects of human nature. It can be rebellious, insubordinate, but still respects "Mother" (the cathedral that dominates the city is known as la Bonne Mère); it is very attached to the old port and everything stops for a pastis before dinner. Wind and sea, odours and accents, colours and ethnic groups, everything adds to the potent brew that seems to be in perpetual motion.
Marseille is both one and many. It is a huge metropolis made up of a hundred villages, a historical city and a major Mediterranean port. Celebrating its 2600-year centenary was a conscious act of integrating its prestigious past while proving to the world that it was ready to grapple with the future. Walk in the narrow streets of Endoume overlooking the sea, take part in the many street events, or take a boat out to the islands. Meet Marseille, and reinvent history at each step.

THINGS TO SEE
Marseille Downtown : - the Old Port - the Panier district - the Canebière avenue - Saint-Victor's Abbey Further out : - Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde Basilica - the Palais Longchamp - the islands and the Château d'If - the "Vieille Charité" et Pierre Puget - the Kennedy Coast Road - l'Estaque	The surrounding area The calanques of Cassis : - Port-Miou - Port-Pin - En-Vau Aubagne La Ciotat