Year: 2019

6 Great attractions to visit in Marseille

According to a legend, Marseille was founded, as greek sailors landed at the place of the present-day Marseille, while a Celtic king named “Nann” was looking for a spouse for his daughter “Gyptis”. But instead to choose a Celtic husband, Gyptis chose one of the greek newcomers. They married, and the Greeks and Celts founded a settlement called “Massalia” which today is known as Marseille. Each legend has a bit of truth, and indeed, in the 7th century B.C., Greek seafarer used the south coast of France as a dock to trade with the Ligures. Thank to this, this city is full of history and several great things do in Marseille. In this article I’d like to show you my six favourite places you should visit. So read on, folks. Things to do in Marseille We won’t waste much of time by beating around the bush and get straight into this. The first thing what to do in Marseille is: Visit the Château d’If I dedicated an own article about the Chateau d’If and therefore, I’ll give you here a brief summary about it. If you would like to get more details, you can read my article about Château d’If, folks. Château d’If  was originally designed as a fortress and became later a prison. The fortress was built between the years 1524 and 1531. It first role was to be a deterrent for the enemies. In the middle of the 16th century, the fortress became a prison, usually for political…