Hôtel de Ville de Marseille

This building of modest size, was erected in 1653. Built like the Genoese palaces of the time, it is the work of an Italian architect, whose name is not passed on to posterity. The building is the former Marseille known as the "La Loge" (derived from the Italian "loggia").

A large room and a more narrow occupy all the space on the ground floor and three rooms share the first floor. Something original, up the stairs to the ground floor on the first floor is in a neighboring house, not even contiguous to the Town Hall. He crossed a street by a closed bridge, forming an arch between the two houses.

A fine example of baroque architecture of the seventeenth century Provence, it is decorated with a medallion bearing the arms of France by Pierre Puget.

It remains one of the few buildings to survive the destruction of the area under German occupation in 1943.