Cours Julien & La Plaine, Marseille: bars, live music, galleries, restaurants

Editorial

The Cours Julien – La Plaine neighbourhood

Between Cours Julien, La Plaine (place Jean-Jaurès) and Notre-Dame-du-Mont, Marseille’s 6th arrondissement is home to a large share of the city’s cultural life and nightlife. Art galleries, street art, cocktail bars, music venues, independent bookshops, restaurants, a community cinema: the neighbourhood mixes genres and crowds.

This site lists the places of the neighbourhood. The aim: quickly find somewhere to go tonight, discover a new spot, or simply wander around and explore.

p. 1By mood

You feel like…

p. 2Our picks

Our picks

The places we recommend with our eyes closed. No ranking, no advertising: just places we love.

All our picks →

p. 3The map

The whole neighbourhood, on foot

places: 42
moods: 8
min on foot from end to end: 11

Each dot is a place. The full map lets you filter, find your position and open each listing.

Open the map

p. 4Le Mag

Empanadas, a bánh mì and filled doughnuts, from three of the neighbourhood’s street food spots

New The vending machine · Street food Where to grab a bite in Cours Julien? Sixteen street food spots, stacked like in a vending machine. Type a code and set off on the snack quest. Read the article

A member of the audience raises his arms in front of the stage at La Brasserie communale

Plugged in · Live music venues Where to see live music in Cours Julien? Eleven stages in the neighbourhood, from a 40-capacity room to the 990 places of the Espace Julien. Read the article

All of Le Mag

p. 5The neighbourhood

The concrete wall around place Jean-Jaurès, February 2019 — La Plaine, February 2019

A neighbourhood that never stops changing

A former market garden, forty years of gigs at the Espace Julien, walls that are written and rewritten, a square defended by its residents. The neighbourhood’s story, without the postcard.

Read the neighbourhood’s story

Living together

The neighbourhood is also community centres, associations and charity shops.

Front of the Maison pour tous, the Julien community centre — community centre

Front of the Maison méditerranéenne des droits de l'Homme (human rights centre) — human rights

Front of the Croix-Rouge workshops, a charity shop — charity shop

p. 6Out this month

Local listings

Le Vortex The monthly listings of gigs and nights in Marseille’s small underground venues. → the listings

Shotgun Tickets and listings for club nights, gigs and festivals around Aix-Marseille. → the listings

Le TarpinBien The local going-out guide, here filtered on events in the 6th arrondissement. → the listings