The visit
Once the second most important economic centre of Provence, Martigues has preserved few tourist attractions. The city has much grown from its medieval alliance of three bourgs, so the old town is nowadays surrounded by large industrial suburbs. Martigues divided by the channel of Caronte between the Mediterranean Sea and a salt-water pond l’Etang de Berre (earlier Sea of Martigues).
The City:
To see the old town, cross directly to the island in the middle of the channel, where (...)