Cours Saint-Louis


The cours Saint-Louis is a street in Marseille, named after Louis of Toulouse rather than Saint Louis. It is the location of small pavilions to designs by Pascal Coste from which flowers are sold.
Located just off a cross roads, with the route to Place Castellane leading off from one side, the route to Porte d'Aix and its triumphal arch, completed in 1839 leading off from the opposite side, two routes leading towards the Old Port, a route towards Palais Longchamp, its close proximity to the famous daily vegetable market place of Noailles and an also with an opening at the back, which meets up with the beginning of the Rue d'Aubagne, Cours Saint-Louis forms a kind of unofficial central point both geographically and culturally of Marseille town centre itself.
Apart from being in itself a historic place, it also features a few notable institutions such as the famous hat shop, Toinou Coquillages,, as well as the herbal Chemist shop La Pharmacie du Père Blaize,, being just a few steps away in nearby rue Méolan.
Cours Saint-Louis is now easily accessible by a new section Tramway which runs directly through it.