Marseille was an important European trading centre and remains the main commercial port of the French Republic. Marseille is now France's largest city on the Mediterranean coast and the largest port for commerce, freight and cruise ships. The city was European Capital of Culture in 2013 and European Capital of Sport in 2017; it hosted matches at the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2016. It is home to Aix-Marseille University. Marseille is the second-largest city in France after Paris and the centre of the third-largest metropolitan area in France after Paris and Lyon. To the east, starting in the small fishing
EUROPEUM - European Culture Centre new place for the European Art collection which was to be the EUROPEUM. Other notable artworks include Catalan medieval Madonnas, Luca Giordano's "Flight into Egypt", “Man of Sorrows” by Jan Gossaert, "Portrait of a Boy with a Bow and a Dog” by Nicolaes Maes, “Portrait of Antonio Canova” by Antonio d’Este, François-Xavier Fabre’s “Portrait of Michał Bogoria Skotnicki” or Bertel Thorvaldsen’s “Mercury”. EUROPEUM - European Culture Centre The EUROPEUM - European Culture Centre is a division of the Kraków National Museum housing a permanent exhibition of European art. Placed on two floors in a restored 17th century granary, the museum