write short note Marseilles?
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Marseilles is a city that only really opened up to tourism at the very end of the twentieth century.
Marseille is the "oldest city in France" and indeed one of the oldest in western Europe. The city was founded as Massalia in around 600 BC, and soon developed into an important port in the ancient Greek world. For the Greeks, and later for the Romans, it was a major point of transition and trade between the civilisations of the Mediterranean, and those of Gaul and northwest Europe.
And that, essentially, has been Marseilles' role ever since. Located near the mouth of the Rhone - the greatest natural corridor between the Mediterranean and the lands to the north, it has long been one of the most important, when not the most important, port in France – a role that explains its importance and its size, as France's third largest urban area, to this day.
Rather in the same way as Genoa or Naples, Marseilles' importance as a port rather hindered its development as a tourist destination; and while other Mediterranean ports like Barcelona and Valencia began to develop their tourism in the 1970's, Marseilles did not. Its port was too important. But more recently, Marseilles has managed maintain its status as one of the most important ports on the Mediterranean, and develop as a tourist destination at the same time.
Explanation:
Marseilles is a city that only really opened up to tourism at the very end of the twentieth century.
Marseille is the "oldest city in France" and indeed one of the oldest in western Europe. The city was founded as Massalia in around 600 BC, and soon developed into an important port in the ancient Greek world. For the Greeks, and later for the Romans, it was a major point of transition and trade between the civilisations of the Mediterranean, and those of Gaul and northwest Europe.