Ads
related to: private tours in marseille france map
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Skyscrapers: CMA CGM Tower (147 m), La Marseillaise (136 m), P99 (99 m) and Tour Mirabeau (85 m) Euroméditerranée (French pronunciation: [øʁɔmeditɛʁane]) is an urban renewal project underway in Marseille to create a ecodistrict in the neighbourhood of La Joliette.
Marseille [a] (French: Marseille; Provençal Occitan: Marselha) is a city in southern France, the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the Provence region, it is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea , near the mouth of the Rhône river.
Eugène Pastré (1806–1868) and his wife Céline de Beaulincourt-Marle (1825–1900) belonged to a wealthy family of Marseille shipowners and merchants. [2] [3] Between 1836 and 1853, the Pastré family accumulated 120 hectares (300 acres) of land between Pointe Rouge and the Grotte Rolland in the south of Marseille, which they made into a park.
The Château Borély is a chateau in the southern part of Marseille, France. [1] Associated with Borély park and Marseille Borély golf course, it has been listed as a historical monument since 1936, [2] and has housed the Museum of Decorative Arts, Earthenware and Fashion since Marseille-Provence 2013 [3] with its rich original decor.
Map of Marseille, 1720. According to John Murray, [2] in 1854 the Old Port had a capacity of between 1,000 and 1,200 ships. Roughly 18,000 merchant ships passed through the port each year, carrying about 20 million barrels worth of freight; this represented a quarter of the trade in Liverpool at the time.
In 1892, the Compagnie du chemin de fer de l'Est-Marseille established a tramline along the boulevard. [7] On the west side, they built an underground tram tunnel, going all the way to the Gare de Noailles. [7] [8] The boulevard was mentioned by French novelist Émile Zola in Chapter 13 of his 1895 novel entitled Les Mystères de Marseille. [9]
Ads
related to: private tours in marseille france map