Travel Reference
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for kids are held at
Préau des Accoules
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04 91 91 52 06; 20
montée des Accoules; admission free;
1.30-5.30pm Wed & Sat)
inside an 18th-century
Jesuit college.
Centre de la Vieille Charité
(2 rue de la Charité, 2e; both museums adult/student €5/2.50; Joliette)
In the heart of
Le Panier is Centre de la Vieille Charité, built as a charity shelter for the town's poor.
Marseille architect and sculptor Pierre Puget (1620-94), born in the house opposite 10 rue
du Petit Puits, designed the stunning arched sienna-stone courtyard. The complex now
houses rotating exhibitions and the beautiful
Musée d'Archéologie Méditerranéenne
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(Museum of Mediterranean Archeology; 04 91 14 58 59; 2 rue
de la Charité, 2e; Joliette)
and
Musée d'Arts Africains, Océaniens & Amérindiens
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(Museum of African, Oceanic & American Indian Art;
MUSEUM
04 91 14
58 38; 2 rue de la Charité, 2e)
. It's free to enter the grounds and sunny cafe.
Basilique Notre Dame de la Garde
(Montée de la Bonne Mère; 7am-7pm, longer hrs summer)
Everywhere you go in Mar-
seille, you see the opulent, domed 19th-century Romano-Byzantine basilica occupying
Marseille's highest point, La Garde (162m). Built between 1853 and 1864, it is ornamen-
ted with coloured marble, murals depicting the safe passage of sailing vessels and su-
perbly restored mosaics. The hilltop gives 360-degree panoramas of the city's sea of terra-
cotta roofs below.
The church's bell tower is crowned by a 9.7m gilded statue of the Virgin Mary on a
12m-high pedestal. Bullet marks and shrapnel scars on the northern facade evidence the
fierce fighting of Marseille's Battle of Liberation (15-25 August 1944). It's a 1km walk
from the Vieux Port; or take Bus 60 or the tourist-train.
CHURCH
Musée Cantini
(
04 91 54 77 75; 19 rue Grignan; adult/child €2/1; 10am-5pm Tue-Sun Oct-May,
11am-6pm Tue-Sun Jun-Sep; Estrangin-Préfecture)
Behind grand gates inside a 17th-
century
hôtel particulier
, the Musée Cantini has rotating exhibitions. Its permanent collec-
tions of 17th- and 18th-century Provençal ceramics and landscapes of the region include
André Derain's
Pinède, Cassis
(1907) and Raoul Dufy's
Paysage de l'Estaque
(1908).
ART MUSEUM
