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Les Crottes, Marseille — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Les Crottes is a Marseille quartier known in the record for the caserne de la Bigue, a regional dojo at Bougainville and its own parish church.
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Where to stay in Les Crottes
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A barracks, a dojo and a parish. That is the whole of what the register credits to Les Crottes, and none of the three is a reason to book a room, which leaves the quartier as an address rather than a destination for anyone weighing where to sleep in Marseille. The city holds the beds.
Whoever does end up here is likely to be near Bougainville, within reach of the dojo régional Marseille Provence Bougainville and the église Notre-Dame-de-Jérusalem des Crottes.
Few places to stay in Les Crottes — most visitors book in Marseille nearby.
About Les Crottes
What are the main landmarks in Les Crottes?
Three entries, no monument among them. The caserne de la Bigue is the one entry with a military purpose, the église Notre-Dame-de-Jérusalem des Crottes gives the parish its dedication, and the dojo régional Marseille Provence Bougainville carries a regional remit for Provence in its own name. A barracks, a parish and a dojo are places of work, not attractions.
What Les Crottes shows a visitor is working Marseille.
What is the history of Les Crottes?
Nothing in the file dates Les Crottes. There is no charter, no founder and no year attached to it, and the quartier's past therefore runs with Marseille's, as it does for the other districts the commune took in and administered from the centre. The caserne de la Bigue and the église Notre-Dame-de-Jérusalem des Crottes are the two names on its list that suggest any depth at all.
Provence gives the dojo its name and the quartier its region.
Where is Les Crottes?
Les Crottes takes up a working stretch of the Marseille commune, holding the caserne de la Bigue and the Bougainville dojo within it.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Les Crottes?
Marseille: guests who need the église Notre-Dame-de-Jérusalem des Crottes for an hour and no longer.
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Updated September 2026