Beaming Marseille

Symbolic image for Marseille : a young ephebe on the esplanade of Tourette,
dominating the harbor, playing cheerfully the tambourine, i
n front of the statue of the virgin perched on Notre Dame de la Garde...
Marseille opened to the World but which transformed its old fort which dominates the city
in a severe monument, a manifesto of the religious power.
Statue of the trainer of Louis Botinelly's bear cubs
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An other one face to face in Marseille - The lion of the summit of the staircases of the station SNCF, dominating of its majestic look the city and the hill of Notre Dame de la Garde
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One of the districts in facades 1900, heap of houses everything in gap,
built along a strongly sloping street.
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A city which lives in its old walls while restoring them.
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Another wall of Marseille, everything cuts - that of the MUCEM
(Museum of the civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea).
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Old wall and contemporary wall - Tourist visitor and traditional fisherman.
In conclusion, we have very there what is Marseille, alive city which did not deny
its roots which go back to the Phocaean.
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Footbridge between the modern world - the MUCEM and the ancient history :
the fort St Jean.
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Church Saint Laurent, rough architecture which reminds the numerous vicissitudes
that in sudden Marseille throughout the centuries.
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The entrance of the harbor of Marseille, during a period of strike of the employees of the harbour, the numerous boats waiting to be able to unload their cargo.
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Fisherman's small boat returning in the harbor of Marseille,
on a sea typically of the Mediterranean blue.
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Marseille, harbor opened on Africa and Asia, one of the commemorative sculptures
of the monumental staircase leading to the station SNCF.
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Other Marseille sculpture, more consensus, with its typical 19th century cherubs.
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The human being around the harbor of Marseille is often the tourist,
such this young woman visiting the fort St Jean.
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Marseille it is also the youth enjoying the tranquillity of the afternoon,
in patient wait at the top of its staircase.
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Acrid image, graff of a known artist, transformed into mutant's portrait.
Reflection of the transformation of certain districts from Marseille ?
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Marseille two worlds that coexist : traditional business men,
and four characters-child trying to write.
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The cathedral of The Major of Marseille is a rather ugly heavy construction
with its neo-Byzantine style. Seen under this angle, hidden, it is completely photogenic !
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Notre Dame de la Garde is also a rather baroque construction...
The inside is also of a very Byzantine style with its golden vaults.
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Notre Dame de la Garde is filled with ex-voto - most in the form of the painting,
but also, as here, in the form of model of boats and planes.
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A lawn of Marseille, invaded in the time(period) (1999 ) by young soccer players.
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The sport nowadays is more organized in Marseille. Here one of the new playing fields, visible since Notre Dame de la Garde.
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