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Marseille

France · 12 quests

History

2 quests
Notre-Dame de la Garde, Marseille🇫🇷 Marseille
Notre-Dame de la Garde
Its gold Madonna stands above the harbor
Château d’If, Marseille🇫🇷 Marseille
Château d’If
A prison from a novel stands on a real island

Nature

2 quests
Parc Borély, Marseille🇫🇷 Marseille
Parc Borély
A château shares the grounds with a horse track
Calanque de Sugiton, Marseille🇫🇷 Marseille
Calanque de Sugiton
Two coves sit below pale limestone cliffs

Art

2 quests
Underwater Museum, Marseille🇫🇷 Marseille
Underwater Museum
The sculptures stand where swimmers look down
Unité d'Habitation, Marseille🇫🇷 Marseille
Unité d'Habitation
A whole village stands inside one concrete block

Food

3 quests
Pieds et paquets, Marseille🇫🇷 Marseille
Pieds et paquets
Sheep’s feet share the pot with stuffed tripe
Aïoli, Marseille🇫🇷 Marseille
Aïoli
Garlic sauce anchors a whole platter
Bouillabaisse, Marseille🇫🇷 Marseille
Bouillabaisse
Fish and broth arrive in separate dishes

Sport

1 quest
Stade Vélodrome, Marseille🇫🇷 Marseille
Stade Vélodrome
A white roof ripples over a former cycling track

Party

2 quests
Carry Nation, Marseille🇫🇷 Marseille
Carry Nation
Its secret-bar story starts before the first drink
La Place des Canailles, Marseille🇫🇷 Marseille
La Place des Canailles
A local crowd keeps this bar lively late

France

Photo quests in Marseille

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Marseille holds twelve quests across six categories, led by Food with three — though only just, with two in Art behind it. The one category with nothing in Marseille so far is Beach.

One is tier 1, the tier kept for what a visitor would not have found on their own: Underwater Museum. It is also the only quest here whose check-in asks for PRO; the other eleven are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers nine of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Marseille quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The one quests in Marseille the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Marseille

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Marseille

How many photo quests are there in Marseille?
12, across six of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Food (3), History (2) and Nature (2). Nothing in Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Notre-Dame de la Garde, Parc Borély and Underwater Museum.
What is there to do in Marseille beyond the obvious?
One of the 12 quests in Marseille is tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Marseille holds one at tier 1, two at tier 2 and nine at tier 3. The tier 1 quest here is Underwater Museum, in Art.
Can you do all the Marseille quests on one trip?
Most of them, with transport. The outermost of the 12 is 11 km from the middle of the Marseille list, so the cluster in the middle is an afternoon and the edges are a bus or a taxi each.
Which Marseille quests can you do for free?
11 of the 12 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 12 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Marseille means one quest: Underwater Museum.
How do I prove I visited a place in Marseille?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Marseille is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Notre-Dame de la Garde fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Marseille sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.