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E Palais Longchamp
Blvd de Montrichet. Musée des Beaux-Arts
(left wing): Tel 04 91 14 59 30. Open Tue–
Sun. Closed public hols. & ∑ musee-
des-beaux-arts.marseille.fr Museum
d’Histoire Naturelle (right wing): Tel 04 91
14 59 50. Open Tue–Sun. Closed public
hols. & ∑ museum-marseille.org
This 19th-century palace is
home to the Musée des Beaux-
Arts and the Museum d’Histoire
Naturelle, with its stuffed animal
collection. The renovated
Musée des Beaux-Arts contains
works by local artists as well The Château d’If in the bay of Marseille, a prison in reality and fiction
as paintings by French, Italian
and Flemish old masters. Mask (see p75) and the real Comte E Musée des civilisations de
de Mirabeau. In 1516, the first l’Europe et de la Méditerranée
+ Château d’If rhinoceros to set foot in Europe (MuCEM)
Vieux Port. Tel 04 91 59 02 30. Open daily was brought ashore here, and 7 Promenade Robert Laffont. Tel 04 84 35
(Sep–Mar: Tue–Sun). & 0 Feb–Nov. drawn by Albrecht Dürer (see p51). 13 13. Open Wed–Mon. Closed 1 May,
Fact, fiction and legend mingle 24 & 25 Dec. & 7 0 ∑ mucem.org
in this island castle in the bay P Cité Radieuse This museum is split between
of Marseille. It was a barren 280 blvd Michelet. Tel 08 26 50 05 00 a striking Post-Modern building
island until 1516, when François I (for guided tour information). on the seafront and the adjacent
decided to make it a fortress. Open Tue–Sat. Fort St-Jean, which are linked
It was built in 1529, and turned A landmark in modern architec- together by a roof-level bridge
into a prison in 1540 until World ture, Radiant City was opened suspended over the sea. It
War I. Famous inmates have in 1952. This vertical, concrete features art from around the
included Alexander Dumas’ construction by Le Corbusier Mediterranean, dating back
fictional Count of Monte Cristo, includes shops, social clubs, from Neolithic times to the
the legendary Man in the Iron schools and crêches (see p29). present day.

Aéroport
Marseille 20 km (12 miles) Gare
Routière
AIX-EN-PROVENCE AV. DU M. PLACE
1 La Vieille Charité AUTOROUTE A7 LECLERC VICTOR St-Charles
Gare
HUGO
2 Cathédrale de la Major
BLV. CH. NEDELEC
3 Musée des Docks Romains PLACE JULES LIBERTE
GUESDE
4 Musée d’Histoire de BLVD. DES DAMES LV L RUE BE R N AR D
DU BOI S
R U E DE LA JOLIETTE
Jules
Marseille L ‘E VE C HE Guesde BD. D’ATHÈNES BD. DE LA
Musée
5 Musée Cantini Vieille RU E D E RU E RUE DES DOMINICAINES Grobet-Labadié
QUAI DE LA TOURETTE Cathédrale RU E R U E R E FU GE D U PLACE DES PLACE SADI RUE CO L B ER T R . TA PI S V ER T CAPUCINES
Palais
PLACE
6 Abbaye de St-Victor MAJOR D E Charité LA Colbert D ’ AIX RUE NATIONALE PLACE DES Longchamp
DE LA
D U PA N I ER
Musée d'Histoire
CARNOT
C A NEB I ER E
de Marseille
de la Major
Bourse
R U E CAS SERIE
MONTEE R . MOULINS R EP UB LI Q UE R. H. BARBUS SE JardinJardin Centre
DES ACCOULES E E Noailles
des Vestiges L A ST-LOUIS
AV. DE ST- T- T JEAN RUE DE des Docks de Ville UA Vieux Port RUE D’AUBAGNE
Hôtel
U
COURS
LA LOGE Musée
Hotel de Ville
Q U A I DU PORT Romains Chateau QUAI DES BELGES DE GAULLE
AV
PLACE DU
A
GENERAL
Musée des d'If RU E ST- F ER R EO L
Civilisations de Vi eux Po rt E. REYER PLACE R U E
l’Europe et de TUN N EL DAVSO
Q U A I DE R IV E N E UV E THIARS RUE F. RU E G RI GNA N DE
la Méditerranée S T- L A URENT PLACE BALLARD PL. J.
Musée Cantini
B D . CH . VI LO N L. Audibert SAI N T E N O T R E -D A M E RUE RU E PLACE DE LA R O M E
Jardin
R U E F OR T
Bassin
de R. DE LA CROIX PLACE BRETEUIL PAR AD IS PREFECTURE
Carénage RU E DE LA Cité Radieuse
Abbaye de BD. DE LA CORDERIE CORDERIE C O U R S Préfecture TOULON
Fort St-Victor Jardin P I E R R E P U G E T Estrangin
St-Nicholas Pierre Basilique de Préfecture Musée des Arts Decoratifs,
Puget
AV. D E L A C O RS E Notre-Dame de la mode et de la Faïence
de la Garde
0 metres 500
For map symbols see back flap 0 yards 500
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp200–1 and pp212–15