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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.
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Cosquer Cave (, also) is located in the Calanque de Morgiou in Marseille, France, near Cap Morgiou. The entrance to the cave is located 37 m (121 ft) underwater, due to the Holocene sea level rise. The cave contains various prehistoric rock art engravings. Its submarine entrance was discovered in 1985 by Henri Cosquer, a professional diver.
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.
It is located in the Bouches-du-Rhône, Var and Vaucluse departments, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, southeastern France. [1] It was created in January 2016, replacing the previous Communauté urbaine Marseille Provence Métropole and five communautés d'agglomération. [2] Its area is 3149.2 km 2. Its population was 1,889,666 in ...
Pages in category "Geography of Marseille" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Boulevard d'Athènes is a historic boulevard in Marseille, France.Situated in the 1st arrondissement of Marseille, it runs from the Rue Marcel Sembat (off the Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles) to the Allée Léon Gambetta, where it becomes the Boulevard Dugommier and finally meets the Canebière.
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]