Next to Goudes is the Marseilleveyre massif. Paul Mariéton reports in a work that the archaeologist Mr. Gilles argued that this place was called Marseilho-Veïre which, again according to Gilles, would mean Old Marseille and not "see Marseille". This assertion remains unfounded today. Moreover, research on Marseilleveyre has often been the source of debate on the origins of Marseille. There was an 11th-century chapel, which was destroyed in 1911.
In 1967, a project that has now been forgotten was born between Les Goudes and Callelongue, facing Île Maïre. Denis Creissels, an engineer at Téléphériques du Midi, had the idea of building an underwater cable car in collaboration with James Couttet. The idea was to connect the two islandsby an underwater cable car diving to a depth of more than 20 meters and offering visitors a new perspective, without the need for a diving suit or oxygen tank. A year later, the "telescope" closed due to a succession of accidents, the most impressive of which was the overturning of a cabin carrying a mooring alongside couple and two children.
Even today, it is still possible to see some remains of this impressive cable car, in particular the wheel mechanism that allowed the cabins to move forward.
Often presented as a den of thugs, the neighborhood was completely transformed in the 1990s and 2000s, becoming a middle-class neighborhood, much to the chagrin of the population for whom real estate has become unaffordable.
Good to know
| Number of boats available | 659 |
|---|---|
| Types of service | Skipper, Hostess, Sailor, Chef (meals not included), Engineer, Mechanic, Masseuse |
| Average price per week | $36,926 |
| Minimum weekly price | $557 |
| Maximum price per week | $995,138 |