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Palais du Pharo in Marseille

6 October 2025 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General, Universities, Colleges, Academies Reading Time:  4 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Palais du Pharo (Occitan: Palais del 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.   read more…

Great Synagogue of Marseille

2 August 2025 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General Reading Time:  3 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Great Synagogue of Marseille (French: Grande synagogue de Marseille) is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Rue Breteuil in the 6th arrondissement of Marseille, France. The building was listed as a monument historique in 2007. The congregation worships in the Sephardi rite.   read more…

Notre-Dame de la Garde in Marseille

18 July 2025 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Notre-Dame de la Garde (lit.: Our Lady of the Guard), known to local citizens as la Bonne Mère (French for ‘the Good Mother’), is a Catholic basilica in Marseille and the city’s best-known symbol. The site of a popular Assumption Day pilgrimage, it is the most visited site in Marseille. It was built on the foundations of an ancient fort at the highest natural point in Marseille, a 149 m (489 ft) limestone outcropping on the south side of the Old Port of Marseille.   read more…

Bouillabaisse

16 February 2025 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  9 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Bouillabaisse (Provençal: bolhabaissa) is a traditional Provençal fish soup originating in the port city of Marseille. The word is originally a compound of the two Provençal verbs bolhir (‘to boil‘) and abaissar (‘to reduce heat’, i.e. ‘simmer‘).   read more…

Fish market in the Old Port of Marseille

25 January 2024 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time:  5 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The fish market in the Old Port of Marseille is a small fish market made up of around ten stands located in the middle of the Quai de la Fraternité, at the exit of the “Vieux-Port” stop of the M1 metro line. Since Marseille-Provence 2013 European Capital of Culture, the fish market is partially covered by the Ombrière du Vieux-Port de Marseille, an immense mirror ceiling reflecting the activity of the quay.   read more…

Martigues on the Côte Bleue

15 January 2024 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Martigues (Occitan: Lo Martegue in classical norm, Lou Martegue in Mistralian norm) is a commune northwest of Marseille. It is part of the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region on the eastern end of the Canal de Caronte.   read more…

Marseille Cathedral

28 November 2023 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Marseille Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure de Marseille or Cathédrale de la Major) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in Marseille. It has been a basilica minor since 1896. It is the seat of the Archdiocese of Marseille (formerly the Diocese of Marseille until its elevation in 1948).   read more…

Aix-Marseille University

7 October 2022 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General, Universities, Colleges, Academies Reading Time:  5 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Aix-Marseille University (AMU; French: Aix-Marseille Université; formally incorporated as Université d’Aix-Marseille) is a public research university located in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II of Anjou, Count of Provence, petitioned the Pisan Antipope Alexander V to establish the University of Provence, making it one of the oldest university-level institutions in France. The institution came into its current form following a reunification of the University of Provence, the University of the Mediterranean and Paul Cézanne University. The reunification became effective on 1 January 2012, resulting in the creation of the largest university in the French-speaking world, with about 80,000 students. AMU has the largest budget of any academic institution in the Francophone world, standing at €750 million. It is consistently ranked among the top 200 universities in the world and is ranked within the top 5 universities in France according to ARWU, USNWR, and CWTS.   read more…

Theme Week Marseille – Old Port

2 March 2020 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General Reading Time:  8 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Old Port of Marseille (Vieux-Port de Marseille) is at the end of the Canebière, the major street of Marseille. It has been the natural harbour of the city since antiquity and is now the main popular place in Marseille. It became mainly pedestrian in 2013. In 600 BC, Greek settlers from Phocaea landed in the Lacydon, a rocky Mediterranean cove, now the site of the Old Port of Marseille. They set up a trading post or emporion in the hills on the northern shore. Until the nineteenth century the Old Port remained the centre of maritime activity in Marseille. In the Middle Ages the land at the far end of the port was used to cultivate hemp for the local manufacture of rope for mariners, which is the origin of the name of the main thoroughfare of Marseille, the Canebière. The great St. Victor’s Abbey was gradually built between the third and ninth centuries on the hills to the south of the Old Port, on the site of an Hellenic burial ground.   read more…