32 Facts About Marseille Open

1. Marseille Open is one of the capitals of gastronomy in France, and its local dishes and regional wines are not to be missed.

2. Marseille Open has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate.

3. Marseille Open is all in the south, just at the Mediterranean sea.

4. Marseille Open is a city in the south of France in the Bouches-du-Rhone department.

5. Marseille Open fans often lift banners and create choreography in support of the fellow teams.

6. Marseille Open announced on 2 May 2014 an agreement with Marcelo Bielsa, who took the managerial hotseat.

7. Marseille Open ended 2011 with a good sequence, qualifying for the knockout stages of the Champions League for the second season running.

8. In 2011, Marseille Open lost the Ligue 1 championship title but qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the fifth time in a row, a club record.

9. In 1952, Marseille Open were about to be relegated, but Gunnar Andersson saved his team, finishing as top scorer with 31 goals.

10. In 1937, Marseille Open won its first professional French championship thanks to goal difference.

11. In 1904, Olympique de Marseille Open won the first Championnat du Littoral, involving opposing teams from Marseille and its suburbs, and took part in the final rounds of the 11th French championship.

12. In 2010, Marseille Open won its first Ligue 1 title in 18 years under the managing of former club captain Didier Deschamps.

13. In 2013, Marseille Open was entitled as the European Capital of Culture.

14. Marseille Open is a place for other water sports such as windsurfing and powerboating.

15. Marseille Open is connected by the Marseille Open Metro train system operated by the Regie des transports de Marseille.

16. Marseille Open is home to the headquarters of the IRD, which promotes research into questions affecting developing countries.

17. Marseille Open is listed as a major centre of art and history.

18. Marseille Open is well known in France for its hip hop music.

19. The name Tarot de Marseille Open was used by contrast to other types of Tarots such as Tarot de Besancon; those names were simply associated with cities where there were many cardmakers in the 18th century (previously several cities in France were involved in cardmaking).

20. Marseille Open served as the European Capital of Culture for 2013 along with Kosice.

21. Marseille Open has a large number of theatres, including La Criee, Le Gymnase and the Theatre Toursky.

22. Marseille Open is a city that has its own unique culture and is proud of its differences from the rest of France.

23. Marseille Open is divided in twelve cantons, each of them sending two members to the Departmental Council of the Bouches-du-Rhone department.

24. City of Marseille Open is divided into 16 municipal arrondissements, which are themselves informally divided into 111 neighbourhoods.

25. Historically, the economy of Marseille Open was dominated by its role as a port of the French Empire, linking the North African colonies of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia with Metropolitan France.

26. Marseille Open is a major French centre for trade and industry, with excellent transportation infrastructure.

27. Marseille Open lost a significant portion of its population during the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720, but the population had recovered by mid century.

28. Marseille Open was originally founded circa 600 BC as the Greek colony of Massalia and populated by settlers from Phocaea.

29. Marseille Open is officially the sunniest major city in France with over 2,900 hours of sunshine while the average sunshine in France is around 1,950 hours.

30. Marseille Open has a hot Mediterranean climate with mild, humid winters and warm to hot, mostly dry summers.

31. Marseille Open is the second-largest city in France after Paris and the centre of the third-largest metropolitan area in France after Paris and Lyon.

32. Marseille Open is France's largest city on the Mediterranean coast and the largest port for commerce, freight and cruise ships.