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Chutes-Lavie, Marseille — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Chutes-Lavie is a quartier of Marseille holding the Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille, the Jardin zoologique de Marseille and the Église des Chartreux.
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Where to stay in Chutes-Lavie
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
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Les Chartreux
Les Chartreux lies under a kilometre off, and the Église des Chartreux is listed on this side too. Rooms are few around here — worth securing early.Les Chartreux →
MarseilleFrancethe quartier on the far side of the museum clusterCinq Avenues
Cinq Avenues stands three-quarters of a kilometre away and carries much the same museum list as Chutes-Lavie. Rooms are few around here — worth securing early.Cinq Avenues →About Chutes-Lavie
What are the main landmarks in Chutes-Lavie?
Fine art and natural history come first. Chutes-Lavie carries the Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille, the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille, the Musée Grobet-Labadié and the Cabinet des monnaies et médailles, with the Jardin zoologique de Marseille alongside them. Two Chartreux churches follow: the Église des Chartreux and the église de l'Immaculée-Conception des Chartreux, joined by the église Sainte-Thérèse-d'Avila de Marseille.
Sport takes the remainder, at the complexe sportif Vallier, the stade Felix Weygand, the stade Chutes Lavies and the boulodrome Sainte-Sophie.
What is the history of Chutes-Lavie?
Pottery, not a charter, opens the record here. What it does carry is a Samian ware discovery site, an archaeological entry sitting under a list otherwise made of the Chartreux churches, the museums and the stadiums of a later Marseille. Collections arrived afterwards.
The Musée Grobet-Labadié and the Cabinet des monnaies et médailles hold what the quartier has gathered since.
Where is Chutes-Lavie?
Chutes-Lavie covers a piece of Marseille within a kilometre of Belle de Mai, Cinq Avenues and Les Chartreux, well back from the middle of the city.
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What is the best area to stay in Chutes-Lavie?
Les Chartreux: the neighbouring quartier that shares the Chartreux churches. Cinq Avenues: the quartier on the far side of the museum cluster.
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Updated September 2026