🇫🇷France
Elaborate fountain built in 1860 & topped with 3 statues representing justice, agriculture & art.
Elegant 18th-century mansion hosting art exhibitions, courtyard gardens & a cafe.
Art & sculpture museum in former Knights of Malta center with works by Rembrandt, Ingres & Cezanne.
Bars & restaurants with al fresco tables ring this lively, sloping square with a central fountain.
Diverse cathedral with a medieval baptistry, Romanesque cloisters & a masterpiece 1400s triptych.
Charming public park known for its expansive green lawns, dramatic water feature & statues.
Green space along a river, popular for sports, picnics & fall walks under brightly colored leaves.
Small studio of the famous artist Paul Cézanne, with his furniture, still life model & work tools.
Victor Vasarely's foundation displaying his optical & kinetic art, in a 1970s building he designed.
Marseille is a city in southern France, the prefecture of the Bouches-du-Rhône department and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in Provence, it marks the eastern end of the Côte Bleue on the Mediterranean coast. Marseille is the second-most populous city proper in France, after Paris, with 886,040 inhabitants in 2023 over a municipal territory of 241 km2 (93 sq mi). Together with its suburbs and exurbs, the Marseille metropolitan area, which extends over 3,972 km2 (1,534 sq mi), had a population of 1,917,728 as of 2023. The cities of Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and 90 suburban municipalities have formed since 2016 the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, an indirectly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of wider metropolitan issues, with a population of 1,939,077 as of 2023. The southeast of Marseille is in Calanques National Park, making Marseille the only large city in France to have a national park within city limits.
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