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Marseille Sacred Places Walk

Marseille Sacred Places Walk

Marseille · France

13 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Marseille to encounter a sequence of churches, a cathedral, an abbey, and a synagogue. The route includes buildings dedicated to Saint Vincent de Paul, Saint Pie X, Saint Théodore, Saint Cannat, Notre-Dame, Saint Laurent, Saint Victor, Saint Joseph, Saint Nicolas-de-Myre, and the Rosary. Along the way, you will see how varied names and forms of worship are represented in the city’s sacred places. This walk is worth taking for its focused passage between distinct religious buildings in walking order.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 13. The rest are in the app.

  1. Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Church

    Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Church

    A nineteenth-century Gothic church whose unfinished façade and extraordinary organ tell a complicated story.

  2. Saint Pius X Church

    Saint Pius X Church

    A former Lazarist church that became a Protestant temple, concert hall, warehouse, and Saint Pius X church.

  3. Église Saint-Théodore

    Église Saint-Théodore

    A Baroque convent chapel rebuilt as a parish church, with a disputed organ and a remarkable Marseille history.

  4. 7 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Saint-Cannat Church

    Saint-Cannat Church

    A Dominican church rebuilt after war, then visibly cut back by Marseille’s street-making.

  6. Église des Grands-Carmes

    Église des Grands-Carmes

    A Carmelite church rebuilt, renamed, stripped and reshaped by Marseille’s history

  7. Marseille Cathedral

    Marseille Cathedral

    A nineteenth-century cathedral where Marseille’s ancient churches, Rome, Byzantium, and modern ambition meet.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 7 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

7 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 13 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.