Hôtel-Dieu
A monumental 18th-century hospital of honey-coloured stone, lifted on a terrace above the port and ringed with open arcaded galleries. After caring for the sick of Marseille for eight centuries, it reopened in 2013 as a luxury hotel with a sweeping harbour terrace.
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The Hôtel-Dieu is a vast hospital building raised on a terrace above the Vieux-Port, its honey-coloured facade ringed by open arcaded galleries where patients were once wheeled out to breathe the healing sea air. The institution was founded in 1593 by merging two older medieval hospitals, but the grand building took shape in the eighteenth century to plans by Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne, grandson of Louis XIV's architect at Versailles, with two monumental staircases finished in 1785. For roughly eight centuries this was the medical heart of the city, receiving the sick and the plague-stricken who arrived with the ships. After the hospital closed, the building reopened in 2013, Marseille's year as European Capital of Culture, as an InterContinental hotel with 194 rooms, its open terrace offering one of the finest panoramas over the Old Port and up to Notre-Dame de la Garde.
Fatti principali
- 1593 year — The hospital was founded by merging two medieval hospitals
- 2013 year — Reopened as a luxury hotel after centuries as the city's hospital
- 194 rooms — Fill the former wards of the converted hospital today
📍 Rue de l'Hotel-Dieu, 13302, Marseille