Marseille, France, walking tour
Marseille has the second-largest population in France, and strolling along this fine street makes it seem like you are in a smaller version of Paris. The sidewalks are wide, a tram runs down the middle, shops and cafés line both sides, scooters glide by, lots of people are out strolling, trees provide greenery, four-story buildings create a human scale, and you are gliding along slightly downhill.
Several side streets that are mostly for pedestrians and lined with more shops offer tempting detours, especially rues de Rome, d’Aubagne, Saint-Ferréol, and Paradis. You can easily walk up one for a few blocks, then cross over to the next and return to La Canabière, zigzagging your way along.
How could this get much better?
Yes. It gets even better when you reach the waterfront end of La Canebière at the vast marina, and with more major streets peeling off in various directions. This total walk from the train station to waterfront is only 1,000 meters, which takes 15 minutes at normal walking speed, but probably longer because you want to stop and detour along the way, adding another 15 minutes at least.
A pleasant and comfortable section of the waterfront is across the marina on the south side, with a series of broad avenues, plazas, pedestrian streets and many restaurants. Walk past the top of the port on Quai de la Fraternité to Cours J. Ballard and explore the four blocks leading from here along the waterfront to Place aux Huiles, with side lanes for pedestrians only. Running through the middle is a classic pedestrian street, Rue Saint-Saëns, leading to Place Thiars. The city’s largest outdoor plaza is one block inland with many outdoor restaurants, Cours Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves, in an open space that was created in the 1980s after community activists successfully pressured the government to demolish a huge multi-level parking lot and put the cars underground.
Places to see in ( Cassis - France ) Calanques
Places to see in ( Cassis - France ) Calanques
Strictly speaking, only one of these three calanques, Port Miou, is part of the territory of Cassis. All the others fall within the municipality of Marseille. However, for practical purposes, these particular calanques can be more easily accessed from the east, rather than starting in Marseille.
In September 2016 the calanques between Marseille and Cassis were laid waste by a terrible forest fire. Started deliberately, it destroyed 3500 hectares / 8650 acres of land and had a severe impact on the delicate ecosystem of the region. It will take many years for the land to recover.
These calanques (with the partial exception of Port Miou) were officially declared a National Park in April 2012, and there may be restrictions on certain sporting activities such as hunting or fishing as a result. On the Presqu'Ile (Peninsula) to the south-west of the town, Port Miou is the nearest of these calanques, and the easiest one to reach from the centre of town
You arrive at the Peninsula along a high crest fringed on one side by pine trees overlooking the sea and on the other by olive trees overlooking Port Miou itself. At the end of the crest is a restaurant, La Presqu'Ile, which serves seafood, salads and simple grilled meat dishes and is open from May to September. Next to it is a tennis club. There is no bar or restaurant down at the bottom of the calanque. The crest offers dramatic views along Port Miou, which is winding and very long - 1.5 km / just under a mile - and offers mooring for over 500 boats along both its fringes. Like the other two calanques of Cassis, it is uninhabited; unlike them, it has no beach.
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Places to see in ( Metz - France ) Saint Maximin
Places to see in ( Metz - France ) Saint Maximin
The church Saint - Maximin is a catholic church located near the Lutheran Temple in the district of the Old Town in Metz in Moselle . It is placed under the name of Bishop Maximin of Trier , who died in 347. The Romanesque church is located in the district Outre - Seille , 68 rue Mazelle.
The construction of this church Romanesque dated xii th century xv th century. The choir, the transept and square tower of the xii th century are an important testimony of the Romanesque period. The nave dates from the xv th century. In the southern transept, the chapel of Louve and Gournay dates from 1365, a gift of Poinsignon Dieu Amy. The young Jacques-Benigne Bossuet pronounced on October 24, 1658, one of the first funeral orations, that of Henry de Gournay. A baroque portal replaces in 1753 the first ogival door
The church houses the only known stained glass windows designed by Jean Cocteau; the stained glass windows were put in place at the end of the 1960s according to cartons from 1962. The stained glass work by Jean Cocteau in Metz is undoubtedly his last great masterpiece substantially completed posthumously since died October 11, 1963. It Edouard Dermit , his adopted son who will ensure the full implementation of the project designed by Jean Cocteau.
The most convincing message signified by central stained glass seems to be that of immortality. Obviously, if Cocteau has made the two characters appear so clearly in this axial stained glass (the praying and his double), we can not ignore and ignore the content of their invocation to know the faith in immortality. Moreover, it is this same immortality that any artist seeks through his work whose goal would be to create a work that succeeds him. Jean Cocteau himself, making this last creation the most important before his death, had to think about it all the time. He did not stop his life during his use of mythology and in particular the character of Orphée to bring back to life the dear ones and make them even immortal. Regarding the Orphée filmfrom 1950, it is said in particular in the blog The Eye on the Screen : Jean Cocteau transposes the myth of Orpheus to the present time ... The man is saved, Death dies, it is the myth of immortality. ' .
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