Marseille-Fos Port
Marseille-Fos Port is the main trade seaport of France. In 2011, the port had an overall traffic of 88 million tons. It is the tenth-largest cruise port in the world and the third-largest in the Mediterranean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Port
- Description: port in France
- Also known as: “Port of Marseille-Fos”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean and Musée Regards de Provence.
Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean
Museum
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The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations is a national museum located in Marseille, France. It was inaugurated on 7 June 2013 as part of Marseille-Provence 2013, a year when Marseille was designated as the European Capital of Culture. Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean is situated 410 metres southwest of Marseille-Fos Port.
Musée Regards de Provence
Museum
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Musée Regards de Provence is a museum, which is situated 270 metres south of Marseille-Fos Port.
Fort Saint-Jean
Fort
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Fort Saint-Jean is a fortification in Marseille, built in 1660 by Louis XIV at the entrance to the Old Port. Since 2013, it has been linked by two foot-bridges to the historical district Le Panier and to the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations; the latter being the first French national museum to be located outside Paris. Fort Saint-Jean is situated 510 metres south of Marseille-Fos Port.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Le Panier and La Joliette.
La Joliette
Quarter
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La Joliette is a neighbourhood of the 2nd arrondissement of Marseille located at the start of the autonomous port of Marseille.
Marseille
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With 1.6 million people in its urban area, Marseille is the second most populated city of France the biggest Mediterranean port and the economic center of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
Marseille-Fos Port
- Categories: seaport and transportation
- Location: Marseille, Arrondissement of Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Slovenian—“Marseille-Fos Port” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميناء مرسيليا-فوس”
- Armenian: “Մարսելի նավահանգիստ”
- Basque: “Marseillako portua”
- Chinese: “馬賽-福斯港”
- Chinese: “马赛海运码头”
- Dutch: “Haven van Marseille”
- Dutch: “Marseille-Fos Port”
- French: “GPMM”
- French: “grand port maritime de Marseille”
- French: “Grand port maritime de Marseille”
- French: “Marseille Fos port”
- French: “Port autonome de marseille”
- French: “Port autonome de Marseille”
- French: “Port Autonome de Marseille”
- French: “Port de Fos-Marseille”
- German: “Marseille Europort”
- Italian: “Gran porto marittimo di Marsiglia”
- Italian: “porto di Marsiglia-Fos”
- Lithuanian: “Marselio uostas”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Grand Pòrt Maritim de Marselha”
- Polish: “Port Marsylia”
- Slovenian: “GPMM”
- Slovenian: “Grand port maritime de Marseille”
- Slovenian: “Luka Marseille Fos”
- Slovenian: “marsejsko pristanišče”
- Slovenian: “Port autonome de Marseille”
- Slovenian: “Pristanišče Marseille Fos”
- Slovenian: “pristanišče mesta Marseille”
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