Marseille, with more than a million inhabitants, is the second-largest city in France and France's premier port. Alexandre Dumas called it "the meeting place of the entire world". The city is ancient, founded by Greeks from the city of Phocaea, near present-day Izmir, Turkey, in the 6th century B.C. Marseille is a place of unique sounds, smells, and sights and home to the most wonderful and imposing 19th-century Basilica of Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde. The Church is proud to be a part of the ecclesiastical tapestry of this bustling city.
