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Marseille lies in a sheltered depression surrounded by hills, which have inhibited the development of suburbs. The Old Port is a natural harbor and one of the most westerly of the inlets along the rocky coastline characteristic of the northeastern Mediterranean; farther west, beyond a large tidal lake called the Berre Lagoon (Étang de Berre), the shoreline flattens out. There the sandy dunes of the Gulf of Fos and the Camargue region in the Rhône’s delta were less attractive to early mariners and were only later seen as offering possibilities for development. Marseille’s natural port was extended in Roman times ...(100 of 4608 words)