Marseille has managed to jealously guard its heritage and turn resolutely towards the new technologies, industry, agro foods, petrochemicals, the environment…

Marseille is the capital of the third French region and the leading industrial and services centre in the South.

Marseille has managed shorten the distances between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean Basin, so as to impose itself as a place for trade, meetings and discoveries.

To discover Marseille, you should not hesitate to leave the city centre. Marseille, is 111 districts, from l’Estaque to les Goudes, passing through le Panier, each with its own charm, history and identity.

Marseille, a major city for the services industry, is now focusing on new technologies, and this, combined with intense, multi-faceted business activity and cross-Mediterranean freight traffic, means that the city has truly risen to the challenge of economic diversification.

With three universities, thirty grande écoles and Faculties with a total of 90,000 students, Marseille has become France’s second largest public research centre for science with 3,000 researchers working in 300 laboratories (astronomy, marine ecology, robotics, AIDS research.)

The city enjoys an exceptional natural heritage (the Calanques (creeks), the Frioul archipelago of four islands, which includes the famous Château d’If, home to Dumas’s literary creation, the Count of Monte-Cristo) and offers numerous exciting and enriching activities both on land and on the water.

For more information on Marseille :
http://www.marseille.fr/
http://www.marseille-tourisme.com/