Jamot) and an autonomous port on the Gulf of Fos (architect G. Forestier), and groups of 17- to 20-story buildings (1965 architects Valmont and Rouviere). Egger), an army hospital (1960-63 architect P. Perret), an apartment house (1947-52 architect Le Corbusier), the faculty of medicine and pharmacology of the university (1959 architect R. Laurana, late 15th century), the baroque city hall (late 17th century), a triumphal arch (1825), and the basilica of Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde (eclectic style 1864).Ĭonstruction after World War II (1939-45) includes the reconstructed old harbor (1951 architect A. Victor’s Church (llth through 15th centuries the crypt dates from the early fifth century), the former cathedral of La Major (begun in the 12th century remains of a fifth-century baptistry sculptures in the chapel of St. Architectural remains include ruins of Roman fortifications, the Gothic Romanesque St. The old city forms an amphitheater around the old port. The main thoroughfare of Marseille is the street La Canebiere a picturesque embankment, called Corniche, runs into a highway that connects Marseille with the resorts of the Cote d’Azur. New port and industrial construction is concentrated in the satellite city of Fos (where, in particular, a metallurgical complex is under construction with the participation of the USSR). The industrial enterprises are located mainly in the region of the port facilities. Its most important industries are petroleum refining (capacity of the refineries, more than 20 million tons a year), petrochemistry and the chemical industry (including synthetic rubber, plastics, and fertilizers), and machine building (including shipbuilding and ship repair and aircraft construction) the food-and-condiment and the building-materials industries are well developed. Marseille is one of the leading industrial centers of France. Marseille is a hub of railroad, highway, and air communications (there is an airport in the city of Marignane) and an important tourist center.
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Its freight turnover includes 50 million tons of petroleum, part of which is shipped in crude form along petroleum pipelines to the cities of Lyon and Strasbourg, as well as Karlsruhe in the Federal Republic of Germany. The freight turnover of the port was 75 million tons in 1971 (about one-third of the freight turnover of all French ports).
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It has a vast port complex, including the old port, a new port built in the northwest of the city, and a series of satellite cities, mainly on the Etang de Berre and the Gulf of Fos. Marseille is France’s largest port, located near the mouth of the Rhône River, with which it is connected by a canal. The country’s second largest city after Paris administrative center of the department of Bouches-du-Rhone. A city in southern France, on the Gulf of Lions on the Mediterranean Sea.