Palais du Pharo in Marseille

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

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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…

The European Federation of Napoleonic Cities

6 June 2012 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Museums, Exhibitions, Union for the Mediterranean Reading Time:  4 minutes

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“This heritage deserves to be better known, highlighted, shared and visited”. Those observations led us to create a Federation for European cities of Napoleonic history. If we look into the great man’s deeds, the French Revolution, the French Age of Enlightenment, the ideals of ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’ are values which bind us together. Rehabilitating historical sites, encouraging historical research, promoting our museums and our culture through live events, opening up to our country and European citizens is a bit like travelling through the complex, contradictory and sometimes opposing tracks whereby those ideals established themselves in Europe.   read more…

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