After arriving in Marseille on May 8, 2024, the Olympic flame will travel around sixty territories, including five overseas, before ending its journey in Paris on July 26.
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Sixty-four territories crossed, including five overseas. Sixty-five stopover towns, from Marseille to Paris. One hundred emblematic sites, from Mont-Saint-Michel to the Palace of Versailles. The route that the Olympic flame will take through France next year was unveiled on Friday June 23 in the great amphitheater of the Sorbonne.
To find out if the flame is passing near you, franceinfo offers you this search engine. All you have to do is type in the name of your department or your city to find out the date and the key place where you will have to go to see and perhaps touch the Olympic flame with your finger (be careful not to burn yourself anyway) .
After nine days of relay in Greece, from April 16 to 26, 2024, the flame will leave Greece from the port of Piraeus aboard the three-master The Belém. He will cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach Marseille on May 8. This will then be the start of a journey of nearly three months, approximately 12,000 km long (the equivalent of three Tours de France). In total, 10,000 “scouts” will take turns throughout the territory.