Cours Saint-Louis

The Cours Saint-Louis is a street in Marseille, named after Louis of Toulouse rather than Louis [IX of France|Saint Louis]. It is the location of small pavilions to designs by Pascal Coste from which flowers are sold.
It is located just off a crossroads, with the route to the Place Castellane leading off from one side, the route to the 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.
With its close proximity to the famous daily vegetable marketplace of Noailles and also with an opening at the back, which meets up with the beginning of the Rue d'Aubagne, the Cours Saint-Louis forms a kind of unofficial central point both geographically and culturally of Marseille town centre.
Apart from being itself a historic place, it also features a few notable institutions such as La Chapellerie de Marseille, Toinou Coquillages, as well as La Pharmacie du Père Blaize, being just a few steps away in nearby Rue Méolan.
The Cours Saint-Louis is now easily accessible by a new section Tramway which runs directly through it.