Marseille

Tango activities in Marseille are among the oldest ones in Europe, as the legend says that "tango arrived in Europe thanks to the Sarmiento boat (now a naval museum in Buenos Aires) in 1906". As everywhere, these activities were about to disappear until the beginning of 90's when a small group of tango afficionados created the non profit association "Les Trottoirs de Marseille" in 1993.

Since, many tango schools and associations - non profit assocations are the most common type of organisation for tango in France - have been created, the current list (September 2008) is more or less as follows (ordered by historical order of creation):

• Les trottoirs de Marseille
• El Tango
• Carrement Tango
• Marseille Tango
• El Tango Argentino
• L'Academia del Tango Argentino
• Cumparsita Club

Despite this relatively high number of tango schools, some collective actions have been performed during these last years:

• since June 2005: La Rue du Tango organizes a milonga on every Friday evening (20h-24h) in June and July, alternatively DJ'ed by each tango association of Marseille
• October 2006: the event Marseille Heure Tango was co-organized by 4 tango associations.

See Also

Two milonga agendas are available online:

• Tangosud
• Tango pour tous

Main neighboring tango cities (one hour far from or less): Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Avignon, Nimes, Salon de Provence