Only in Marseille
A Guide to Unique Locations, Hidden Corners and Unusual Objects
ISBN-13: 978-3-9505392-5-7
Author: Duncan JD Smith
Publisher: The Urban Explorer
Edition: 1 (2025)
Specification: Paperback, 120 pages, 56 colour photos & two fold-out maps, 13.5 x 21cm
Prices: £ 10.95, € 12.90, US$ 16.00, CDN$ 22.00
ISBN-13: 978-3-9505392-5-7
Published Spring 2025! Discover Marseille’s ancient origins, bustling port life and exciting cultural scene with this explorer’s guidebook to the oldest city in France.
Duncan succeeds in telling the tale of Marseilles by taking you down unexplored streets and whisking you round the city’s hidden corners. If you’ve a taste for the unusual, the hidden or the plain weird, then this is the guidebook for you.
A reader
- A ground-breaking illustrated Marseille guidebook to 55 fascinating and unusual historical sites in the alternative French capital. Celtic ruins and modern museums, colonial ghosts and ethnic enclaves, street art and culinary delights.
- From the Count of Monte Cristo and the Abbey of the Black Madonna to Le Corbusier’s Radiant City and the Velodrome Stadium.
- Locations include an Underwater Museum, an Armenian Quarter, an Art Deco Opera House, and a traditional soap factory.
- Also rugged sea coves, Buddhist pagodas, country homes, and a game of pétanque.
- The ideal Marseille guidebook for travellers who want to escape the crowds and go beyond the well-known paths, as well as for those inhabitants who perhaps thought they already knew their city.
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