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Villa M Marseille
Marseille, France · Villa M · Near Luxury
The old Villa Massalia, once a Golden Tulip, reopened on 22 May 2025 as Villa M at 17 place Louis Bonnefon, terrace toward the Hippodrome Borély. Groupe Pasteur Mutualité had already tried the idea on Boulevard Pasteur in Paris. Thierry Lorente and Amanda Lehmann shaped this one as a hotel and a clinic: 140 rooms, a pool, a hammam, and cryotherapy, with interiors by Friedmann & Versace in ocher and saffron. This is Borély, in the 8th, by the Prado beaches and the park.
- 140 rooms
- Neighborhood: Borély
- Architect: ELEV Architecture
- Interiors: Friedmann & Versace
About Villa M Marseille
- Florent Manaudou spoke at the inauguration. The six-time Olympic medalist is ambassador of Team Sport Santé 2028, a group of athletes who are also clinicians, aimed at the Los Angeles Games.
- Beside the bedrooms there is a care center, a sports club, coworking desks, a pétanque court, and a gaming room. The conference floor runs to about a thousand square metres.
History
Villa M Marseille is the second house in a small group invented by Groupe Pasteur Mutualité. The first opened on Boulevard Pasteur in Paris at the end of 2021, aimed at families, clinicians, and researchers as much as at ordinary guests. In Marseille the group took the Villa Massalia, formerly a Golden Tulip, at 17 place Louis Bonnefon, facing the Hippodrome Borély, and reopened it on 22 May 2025.
Thierry Lorente and Amanda Lehmann, chief executive and deputy of the mutual, shaped the idea: 140 rooms, a restaurant terrace on the track, a prevention and care center, a sports club, a pool, sauna, hammam, treatment rooms, and cryotherapy, plus coworking, a pétanque court, a gaming room, and about 1,000 square metres of conference space. ELEV Architecture did the building. Friedmann & Versace did the interiors, in raw and dressed materials, deep ocher and saffron, with objects from local craft. At the inauguration Florent Manaudou spoke for Team Sport Santé 2028.
The setting
17 place Louis Bonnefon, 13008 Marseille, in the 8th arrondissement, on the edge of the Hippodrome Borély and a short walk from Parc Borély and the Prado beaches. This is not the Vieux-Port, and it is not nhow Marseille on the Corniche.
Restaurants and bars
- Restaurant Villa Massalia — Restaurant
Amenities
- Consultations spécifiques pour les professionnels de santé
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