Campaign of the Month: August 2011
Le Ballet de l'Acier
Marseille
Private residences
- Hôtel de Valbelle
- Hôtel de Cabre
Churches
- Cathédrale Sainte Marie Majeure de Marseille – “The Major,” seat of the Bishop of Marseille
- Notre Dame de la Garde – chapel and fortress known as “The Good Mother”
- Église Notre Dame des Accoules – second only to The Major in importance
- Église Saint Laurent pres Les Moulins – “St Laurent of the Windmills,” a parish church
- Église Saint Jacques de Corregaria – parish church
- Abbaye Saint Victor de Marseille – venerable Benedictine abbey
- Couvent de Saint Saveur – nunnery built at the same time as the Abbaye Saint Victor
- L’Observance – Cordeliers abbey
- Couvent des Jacobins – Dominican convent
- Saint Ferréol les Augustins – Templar church turned Augustinian abbey
- Hôtel Dieu de Marseille
- Religieuses de Sion – hospital for the indigent
Municipal Buildings
- Maison de Ville – the city hall of Marseille
- Palais et la Cour du Lieutenant – the court of the Admiralty lieutenant of Marseille
- Tour d’Horloge – Marseille’s municipal clock tower
- Arsenal des Galères – base for the royal galley squadron
- Tour de Saint Jean – commandery of the Knights of Saint John
- Tour de Saint Nicolas – small fortress protecting the port of Marseille
- Château d’If – infamous island fortress and prison
Public Places
- Vieux Port – the port of Marseille
- Place d’Accoules – the great market square of Marseille
- Place de Lenche – square of the Lenche family
- Place Neufue – the “new square”
- Place des Vivaut – square of the Vivaut family
- Petit Maseau – the small butchers’ market
- Grand Maseau – the large butchers’ market
- La Pesquarie – the fish market
- Le Grand Puits – the largest city fountain
- La Pierre que Raie – the “Roiling Stone”
Inns, Taverns, and Cabarets
- Le Logis du Panier – “The Basket” inn, which shares its name with the surrounding community
- Auberge de la Reine Jeanne – “The Queen Joan” inn, an expensive lodging popular with the nobility
- Auberge Garnier – an older inn named for one of the medieval families of Marseille
- Hôtel de Galbert – the former townhome of the Galbert family, now an inn
- Le Coquillage – “The Seashell,” a former pilgrims’ hostel, now a small inn
- Les Treize Cantons – “The Thirteen Corners,” a popular tavern
- Le Tonneau de Vin – “The Wine Barrel,” a tavern
- La Courtisane Heureuse – “The Happy Courtesan,” a cabaret
- Le Grosse Aiguille – “The Sail-Needle,” a tavern near the port
- Taverne Trencavel – “Trencavel’s Tavern,” a disreputable drinking-hole
- Lo Trobador Espanyolo – “The Spanish Troubador,” a tavern favored by players
- Lo Diable – “The Devil,” a gambling hell
- Lo Galera Roja – “The Red Galley,” a tavern near the port