Marseille: Tips, Ideas, NY Times Profile

[TLCOhio]

From the New York Times Travel Section to be published this coming weekend, they have this headline: “36 Hours in Marseille”  with this sub-head: "The French port city is shedding much of its once-gritty reputation and emerging as a place where ambitious cultural and culinary offerings take center stage." 

 

Here are more story highlights: “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.  Everyone agrees, however, that Marseille is a city in metamorphosis. Major urban-renewal projects have upgraded the waterfront into a sprawl of state-of-the-art cultural venues, shopping centers and skyscrapers from five-star architects.”

 

Many different options and potentials, plus pictures, an interactive map, etc., are featured in this detailed profile.

 

Full story at:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/travel/36-hours-in-marseille.html

 

THANKS!  Enjoy!  Terry in Ohio

 

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www.boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2607054-livenautica-greece-holy-lands-egypt-dubai-terrypix’s/

 

Here is one of the many visual featured with this profile.  It is of Marseille’s sprawling harbor, Le Vieux Port, their picturesque heart of the city.:

(Open your screen/viewer wider to see these pictures larger/better!)