How to Spend a Port Call In Marseille

La Canebière. Anthony Lanneretonne

A view to the hilltop Notre-Dame de la Garde. Anthony Lanneretonne

Fare at Mouné. Anthony Lanneretonne

​Out and about in France’s second-largest city.

More than 2,600 years ago, Phocaean sailor Protis traversed the Mediterranean in search of land on which to build a new city. As legend has it, his arrival at Lacydon cove coincided with a party where a local Celto-Ligurian girl, Gyptis, was choosing her husband. She picked the handsome foreign explorer, and their nuptials laid the foundation for Massalia.

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