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Origin of the name of Marseilles
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 MASSALIA ___ Massalia was the former name of the city which Greeks who came from Phocaea (today Foça, in Turkey) founded, 2600 years ago. It is told that this foundation was sealed by the nuptials of the young head of the Greek sailors, Protis, with Gyptis, the daughter of a local king. Real or mythical, this alliance story survived, because it is very symbolic. |
;) The Old-Port |
;) Pharo Palace and Fort St. Jean |
It recalls us that, in its mere origin, Marseilles is dedicated to the immigration and the interbreeding, to the integration of the inhabitants of the Mediterranean basin. Marseille did not forget Massalia. Marseille, above all, is from the sea and from the East. Its name which became Massilia, then Marsilia, yet echoes with this fidelity with the opening, the welcome, the mixture. The image which one can have of Marseilles today is that |
;) Two sailing ships : Le Don-du-Vent and Le Marseillois |
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;) Notre-Dame de la Garde Basilica |
of a city in a splendid site, and in permanent state of incompletion. The photographs of this web site have not another ambition than to as follows show it: heteroclite, disparate, and beautiful. |
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