Cours Belsunce

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Cours Belsunce
coat of arms
Street in Marseille
Cours Belsunce
Basic data
place Marseille
District Belsunce
(1st arrondissement)
Hist. Names Le Cours

Le Grand Cours
Cours des Phocéens

Cross streets Canebière

The Cours Belsunce is a street in Belsunce , a district of the city of Marseille in southern France .

The street was created in 1670 when Marseille was expanded on the orders of Louis XIV . The intersection of the Cours Belsunce, the Canebière and the Cours Saint-Louis is used as the starting point for calculating the distance between Marseille and the capital Paris . The Alcazar Theater is on the street . At the beginning of the 1960s, three apartment blocks were built on the street.

Coordinates: 43 ° 17 ′ 55.4 "  N , 5 ° 22 ′ 34.9"  E