Despite its church-y name, the district has long been known as the hangout spot for the artsy crowds
Time Out has published its annual ranking of the coolest neighborhoods in the major cities around the world revealing that the winner for 2024 is Notre-Dame-Du-Mont in the southern French city of Marseille.
Could this mean that Marseille is finally posed to become the new trendy, hip destination on the Mediterranean circuit? The top spot claimed by the neighbourhood certainly points towards that possibility.
“Around the metro, new arrivals from Paris and beyond can be found sunning themselves on the terraces along Rue de Lodi, mingling with a diverse crowd of punks and their dogs, women in colourful robes, and salty old sailors sipping 8.6 beer.”
This is how Alicia Dorey, a Time Out writer based