Marseilles - Cathédrale de la Major

On a terrace in the northwest of Old Town Marseilles, above the new port installations, stands the mighty Cathédrale de la Major, with two domed towers and a 16m/53ft high dome over the crossing. It was built between 1852 and 1893 in a mixture of Romanesque and Byzantine styles of alternate courses of white and green limestone. With a length of 141m/463ft it is the most spacious ecclesiastical building of the 19th C. The interior is richly decorated with marble and mosaic; in the crypt can be seen the tombs of the Bishops of Marseilles.