Marseille

MARSEILLE Last week we visited the Alps, and this week we decided to change it up a little bit. We are visiting Marseille. Marseille is the second largest city in France, just a little bit behind Paris. Marseille is located on the southeast coast of France. It is the capital of the Provence-alpes-cote d’azur region, and it is also the largest mediterranean port. Personally I loved the city, it was the perfect size. It had so many different things to do, place to eat and stay and it also had the mediterranean sea right next to it which gave a nice touch. 

The first place we visited was the museum of mediterranean Archaeology. We never imagined that Marseille had so many museums. They had a museum for the fine arts, natural history, porcelain museum and also the Egyptian antiquities collection which is the second most important museum in France (right after the Louvre of course).

 We also visited the Vieux Port which is the main tourist area of Marseille. The port was small but very warm. There was a fish market, it has cafes and restaurants and a lot of sailing boats and small fishing boats. I heard that you could take ferries that can take you to different islands that are close to the city. Islands like Chateau d’if, Isles of Frioul, and the calanques. That same afternoon we went to the Palais Longchamp which has some beautiful fountains. This palais was built to celebrate the bringing of water to Marseille from the river via the canal. 

While we were in Marseille we had to try the Bouillabaisse, which is Marseille’s most famous dish. The dish consists in Fish soup and then you eat the fish that was used to make the soup. You can eat the Bouillabaisse with different kind of fishes. Also we tried this little but very cute things called Navettes, which are biscuits shape like boats and they taste a little bit like orange. One thing that I thought it was bizarre and I would like anyone who is going to travel to France to know is that the price of the fish is given by weight, so if it is a very fat fish is a very fat price you pay for it.