Marseille (or Marseille) is a city in the region of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur.
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Four or five days are enough to visit Marseilles. The city does not have high quality museums, but walking along the street, despite the city's dangerous aspect, its state of degradation and dirt, can be an interesting experience for anyone trying to understand the reality and the way people live.
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The best place to drink and go out at night in Marseille is the Cours Julien. An area similar to Bairro Alto in Lisbon, but smaller. In this neighborhood there are a number of restaurants where you can eat well and relatively cheaply.
There is a place that, despite being small and unhygienic and the available drinks are limited to beer and wine, turns out to have a curious atmosphere. It's called Cosmic Up and belongs to a rockabilly - Jean Marie. The music is Surf Music and Rock n' Roll from the 50s and 60s. There are live concerts and disc jockeys.
Also in this neighborhood there is another bar with live music called Dan Racing, poor hygiene, relatively large, a wider range of drinks and lots of music. In this area there are bookstores, music and instrument stores, for those who like it you can find stores with a lot of vinyl for sale, although some of it is expensive. For example, an album by the Doors live in Sweden can reach 50 euros. There is a bookshop specializing in comics, which also works as a bar and restaurant, the owners are extremely friendly. One is Moroccan and the other looks like Peter O'Tole in Lawrence Arabia. To get to this neighborhood, the reference point is Prefecture de Police, an illuminated and restored building in Canabiére. At the corner of the building, just start going up and when the street forks, take the left side.
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If you leave Marseilles for Portugal, follow the motorway, towards the airport and from there the direction Arles. In Arles follow the direction Aigues Morts, crossing the Camargue. Camargue is a natural park in the delta of the Rhône. In addition to the journey being more pleasant, it saves km. After crossing the Camargue you are in Montpellier, entering the motorway here to the Spanish border. After crossing the border, take the Spanish motorway to Girona airport, where you will find signs indicating C25, follow this towards Vic and Manresa. It is a national road, but wide and with the floor in very good condition, which allows for good averages.
This road comes out to Lérida, here you have the chance to take the Barcelona/Madrid highway, or continue along the NII national road until next to Zaragosa, and then 17Km from this city enter the Zaragoça/Madrid highway. In other words, Madrid/Zaragosa is the highway and 17km after this city it becomes a highway passing Lérida towards Barcelona.
The highway is expensive and heading towards Barcelona is heading towards the coast but not towards the French border. From Barcelona to the French border it is a further 160 km. Maintaining a speed of 100/120 KmH, it took me 17H between Lisbon and Marseille, stopping only to fill up the car and buy water.
If you are in Marseille and want to make the Côte D'Azur, inside Marseille you should head towards Place de la Castellane, Prado passing by the Olympique de Marseille Stadium, continue straight on until the boulevards end and cross the national road. So you can do the entire coast. Next to Marseille is Cassis, La Ciotad, Toulon etc. This makes it possible to travel from Marseilles to Menton/Vintmiglia on the Franco-Italian border, always close to the coast.
Any visitor who has friends or family living in the city is advised to stay a few more days, at least four, to visit Arles, Avignon, Nimes and Toulon. It is possible to take a train from Gare de Stº Charles to each of these cities and return at the end of the day. Each one of them can be visited for one day, it's a good idea to take a train at around 9:00 am, as each one of them is about an hour by train from Marseille. In the morning, there are already many people buying tickets and few SNCF employees, which can mean that after buying the ticket you have to wait an hour or more for the next train, which ends up limiting the time available for the visit.
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