North African-origin neighborhoods that ring Marseille, which is hosting the 2024 Olympic sailing competition at the opposite end of its spectacular, monument-fringed bay. The millennia-old port ...

France’s oldest city is having a moment, from prison restaurants to artist-run hotels. Here’s your guide to Europe’s most underrated cultural capital.

Farouk Youssoufa, 25, courted his 20-year-old ... Marseille, always getting younger as it grows older," wrote Alexandre Dumas. But Gaudin wants to make another point. "It's a port," says the ...

Aerial view of the Old Port of Marseille, where the torch will arrive from Greece. It brings together an endless number of boats, although not cruise ships, that arrive at the New Port ...

Built in 1660 by Louis XIV, Fort Saint-Jean is a well-preserved fortress guarding Marseille at the entrance to the Old Port. Interestingly, it was built not to keep invaders at bay but to tamp ...

Le Panier – or the Basket – gives a glimpse of Old Marseille and real Marseille culture ... a great place to wander for a few hours. Vieux Port started docking ships and boats back in 600 ...

Intense overnight storms caught citizens of Marseille off guard on Tuesday ... Payan urged residents to be careful as the city’s old port and several neighbourhoods were inundated by torrential ...

Gruff, sentimental César (music-hall star Raimu) owns a waterfront bar in the Old Port of Marseille where his son, Marius (Pierre Fresnay), wipes down tables and dreams of a life at sea.

An 80-year-old woman has died after being hit ... About 50 "yellow vests" blocked access to a major fuel depot in the port of Fos-sur-Mer, near Marseille, and petrol stations across the country ...

On Wednesday, May 8, a fleet of up to 1,024 ships will mark the arrival of the Olympic torch to France via Marseille ... will take place in the city’s Old Port after a nautical parade in ...

On a bright, blustery morning this week, thousands of people gathered in a park in the southern port city of Marseille ... a 20-year-old man of Algerian heritage. “Front Populaire!