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Place aux Huiles

Place aux Huiles · Place aux Huiles

A Vieux-Port square whose name remembers the oil barrels once handled on the old customs canal.

Place aux Huiles sits on the south side of the Vieux-Port above the former Canal de la Douane. Its name comes from the barrels of oil once loaded and unloaded here, making the square a useful trace of Marseille’s commercial food history.

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Vieux-Port de MarseilleWhy it matters: this connects Place aux Huiles to Vieux-Port de Marseille so the Marseille tour graph explains the place, product or culture in context.