Marseille
Worth seeing in and around Marseille
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 02Aix-Marseille University
French public university located in Provence, founded in 2012 from the merger of Université Aix Marseille I, Aix Marseille II and Aix Marseille III
1.9 km · Wikipedia - 03
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- 06Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations
National museum of ethnology in Marseille, France
1.6 km · Wikipedia - 07
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Marseille
- Airports
- Marseille Provence (MRS), 21 km · Montpellier-Méditerranée (MPL), 119 km · Nice-Côte d'Azur (NCE), 153 km
- Stations
- Marseille-Saint-Charles station, 700 m · Port of Marseille-Fos, 6.2 km
- Montpellier/Méditerranée → Marseille126 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · €17–24
- Nice, Alpes-Maritimes → Marseille159 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · €20–28
- Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône → Marseille269 km · quickest by air, 4h 18m · €100–150
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Marseille
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Marseille. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are direct daily services to Marseille from Ajaccio, Bastia, Porto Torres, Porto-Vecchio, and Propriano as well as ferries traversing the Mediterranean from Oran and Algiers in Algeria, usually with one or two crossings per week.
- Get aroundA Ferry Boat crosses the Old Harbour (Vieux Port).
- Get aroundSeveral other ferries propose connections with L'Estaque, Les Goudes, La Pointe-Rouge and Le Frioul.
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Next door to Marseille
- Plages du Pradobeaches in the south neighborhood of Marseille, France3.9 km