Cours Julien

A look around

What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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Where it sits

The circle is Cours Julien and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• The Vieux-Port12 min walk979 m
• Le Panier18 min walk1.5 km
• Notre-Dame de la Garde19 min walk1.6 km
• MuCEM & Fort Saint-Jean25 min walk2.0 km
• Bouillabaisse25 min walk2.1 km
• The Corniche & Vallon des Auffes9 min taxi2.9 km
• La Corniche & Endoume (beach)9 min taxi3.0 km
• The Château d'If15 min taxi5.2 km
• The Calanques31 min taxi10.3 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 9.Cours Julien street art — The Cours Julien and the lanes around it are an open-air gallery — nearly every wall, staircase and shopfront splashed with vivid, ever-changing street art and murals, amid indie shops, cafés and a Provençal market. The hip, creative heart of Marseille; wander with a coffee and hunt the murals, then stay for the buzzing nightlife.
• 13.A Marseille night out — Marseille goes out with gusto — the bars and live-music venues of Cours Julien and La Plaine, the trendy spots along the port, and the multicultural buzz of Noailles, all cheap, unpretentious and lively. Bar-hop the Cours Julien terraces over a pastis or a spritz; the city's nightlife is raw, warm and a world from Riviera polish.
• 15.Pastis & a Provençal apéro — The ritual of the Marseille aperitif — a glass of cloudy, anise-scented pastis (Ricard was born here) topped with cold water and ice, sipped on a sunny terrace with olives and tapenade as the afternoon slides into evening. Do the apéro properly; and try the local street snacks — panisse (chickpea fritters) and a navette biscuit.