When it comes to major cities in France, it's difficult to ignore Marseille. It was founded in 600 BC by Greek settlers, so it has history. It's the third largest city in the country at nearly two ...

The key attraction of Marseille is the city itself – the atmosphere, flux and throbbing beat of a big port city. The place lives and works essentially in the present, and has done for the past ...

Marseille is France’s second-largest city, and it's easy to cover swaths of it on foot. But bear in mind that in much of the city, you're either walking up or down: This is a hilly place.

The French department of Bouches-du-Rhône, which includes Marseille, France’s second-largest city, is failing to provide unaccompanied migrant children the protections they need and to which ...

Then in the 20th century, a different type of transformation occurred: Made famous in films, the Camargue became known as the unbridled Far South, roamed by the gardians of French westerns. The ...

In the constituency that encloses the hyper-center of Marseille, Manuel Bompard — from the controversial hard-left France Unbowed, known as LFI — won with 67% in the first round. French President ...

MARSEILLE, France (CNS) -- The world and the Catholic Church today need to take a leap forward “in faith, charity and hope,” Pope Francis said in his homily at a late afternoon Mass in ...