Time Out has released its seventh annual list of the World’s Coolest Neighbourhoods, with Notre Dame du Mont in Marseille, France, taking the top spot. The top five also includes a concrete jungle in Casablanca, the go-to beach neighbourhood in Bali, a fashion district in Seoul and a charming enclave in Portland. All of the neighbourhoods on the list are amazing places to be right now when it comes to culture, diverse things to do and a great sense of community, places where you can always find affordable food and drink, a buzzing nightlife scene as well as dynamic street life during the day, with unique local businesses, new and old. Each year, Time Out – the global brand that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city – curates its list of the Coolest Neighbourhoods in the most exciting cities around the world. To create the ranking this year, Time Out’s global travel editors worked with local, in-the-know Time Out writers and editors across a selection of the world’s best cities and asked them what the coolest neighbourhood in their city is right now, and why. The selection was then narrowed down and ranked using the insight and expertise of Time Out’s global network of city editors and local experts who know their hometowns better than anybody else. Grace Beard, Travel Editor at Time Out, says: “Time Out’s annual ranking of the World’s Coolest Neighbourhoods celebrates the most unique and exciting pockets of our cities. The neighbourhoods on this yea
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