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Along the Mediterranean
offered by supplier M15714 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Group Size: 1
- 16
people
Destination: Marseille
Season: January - December
Languages: English, French
Minimum Cost: 75 Euro (EUR) Per person
Maximum Cost: 180 Euro (EUR) Per person
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It is not easy to discover Marseilles but we will help you to feel the soul of the city and its original and picturesque features.. As one of the oldest cities of France it teaches a lot about the history of Provence. The ruins of the Greek and Roman port remain its foundation in 600 BC by the Phoceans. The city, born from the sea, has kept during 26 centuries its maritime and commercial vocation. That's why Marseilles was considered as the gateway of Orient and Africa, the gateway of the French Colonial Empire and exhaled a perfume of exoticism.
First commercial port in the Mediterranean Sea for its traffic, third port of Europe, it still presents a cosmopolitan nature. Dominated by the church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde, the Good Mother who watches over the people of Marseilles, the old Port, where the commercial maritime activities took place until the 19th century, is the witness of this history and one of the most picturesque places of the city. South Side of the Old Port the Saint-Victor abbey is bringing us back to the early Middle ages and the first Christians and to the time when the abbey was one of the most important of Occident.
The fabulous "Corniche Kennedy" with the sumptuous houses and mansions of the upper merchant class of the 19th century, is a marvelous view point to admire the island of "Chateau d'If" made famous by Alexandre Dumas in his novel "le Comte de Monte Cristo" and the "Frioul Islands" which close the bay of Marseilles. Not far from there, the little fishing port of Cassis with its colored facades, its amazing vineyards will be the ideal stop to end a perfect day in Provence drinking an excellent white wine on one of the terraces of the Port.
As the The Provençal writer Frederic Mistral said about it "Anyone who has seen Paris, but not Cassis, hasn't seen anything". No stop in Marseilles or Cassis without seeing les Calanques, rocky inlets, kind of little fjords that offer a stunning and fabulous inviolate countryside, unique in the world, with limestone cliffs plunging into a deep blue sea. Sormiou, Morgiou, Sugiton, En Vau, are a paradise to hike, climb, dive or simply swim.
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