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Les Baumettes, Marseille — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Les Baumettes is a quarter in the 9th arrondissement of Marseille, known in the record for Baumettes Prison and the sports grounds near Luminy.
About Les Baumettes
Where to stay in Les Baumettes
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Hotels are not what Les Baumettes is on the map for, and a traveller looking at the 9th arrondissement of Marseille will find sports grounds, a faculty quarter at Luminy and a prison rather than a lodging street. The city centre holds the rooms. Anyone climbing at the Escampons and Baumettes site, or working out at Luminy, gains from a base this far along.
Everyone else stays nearer central Marseille.
About Les Baumettes
What are the main landmarks in Les Baumettes?
Sport fills the list here. The record names the tennis club Phoceen Luminy, the COSEC de la Faculté des Sciences du sport de Luminy, Azur Forme and a fronton Pelote Basque, all of them places to play rather than places to look at. The parc Ludico sportif du Baou de Sormiou sits among them, and so does the climbing site at Escampons and Baumettes in the Calanques de Marseille.
Baumettes Prison is the best-known address. Its own installation sportive du centre pénitentiaire des Baumettes appears in the same list.
What is the history of Les Baumettes?
Les Baumettes comes with no date attached. What the sources carry for Les Baumettes is the prison, described as standing in the 9th arrondissement of Marseille, with nothing said about how the quarter itself came to be settled or named. Luminy and the Baou de Sormiou enter only through their sports grounds.
Anyone tracing the quarter further has to work from the history of Marseille, because the entry for Les Baumettes runs to a single line.
Where is Les Baumettes?
Les Baumettes belongs to the 9th arrondissement of Marseille, ground the record ties to Luminy, the Baou de Sormiou and the Calanques de Marseille.
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Updated August 2026