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Marseille flaunts a Mediterranean medley of cool and cachet

Marseille flaunts a Mediterranean medley of cool and cachet

Once considered down at heel, the French port city's metamorphosis is creating a buzz. Here's where to go with 36 hours.

Marseille’s sprawling harbour – Le Vieux Port – is the picturesque heart of the city. NYT

No city divides the French like Marseille. For every admirer cooing about the sun-warmed sea, craggy coastlines, fish-rich bouillabaisse and the Mediterranean melting pot (thanks to 20th-century immigration from Greece, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria), someone else is grousing about corruption, dirty streets and eroding Frenchness. And where the port city’s champions see a swaggering no-nonsense metropolis free of bourgeois pretensions, others see a lack of refinement.

Fort St. Jean offers views of the waterfront and cityscape. NYT

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