A district of the 15th arrondissement
Located in the 15th arrondissement, the Calade district of Marseille lies to the east of the Grand Port Maritime, on Cap Janet. The origin of its name comes from the Occitan word calada, meaning “descent”.
The lycée Nord de Marseille (also known as the lycée Saint-Exupéry), the lycée des métiers de la beauté, de la mode et de la relation client and the école de la deuxième chance are all located in La Calade. For the record, the Marseilles rapper Soprano studied at the lycée Nord de Marseille during his teenage years.
The Consolat housing estate
Located in the Calade district, Cité Consolat is one of Marseille’s largest urban housing estates, alongside Cité de la Viste and Cité des Aygalades. It was built in the 1960s in the heart of a district created in the 19th century. The Cité Consolat has a privileged location: between two major motorways, close to port activities and opposite the harbour. Freight trains run along the edge of the estate on the SNCF double-track line, which was specially designed for this type of journey.
During Marseille’s industrial boom in the 19th century, this working-class district attracted skilled workers to the oil mills that supplied the raw materials for the city’s famous soaps, as well as to sugar and sulphur processing plants.
Today, the Cité Consolat is home to the Groupe Sportif Consolat, a football club founded in 1964 by local residents, and renamed Athlético Marseille in 2018 to represent Marseille. From 1984 to 2018, Jean-Luc Mingallon presided over the club, which had the opportunity to move up to the National League in 2014.
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