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Château d'If

Marseille, France

Château d'If

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

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Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations

Marseille, France

Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

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The southern portal of the Rove Tunnel.

Marseille, France

Rove Tunnel

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

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Fort of Ratonneau

Marseille, France

Fort of Ratonneau

A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.

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le téléscaphe in the 60s

Marseille, France

Le Téléscaphe

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

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Alfonso's deceptively simple color palette at play

Marseille, France

Unite d'Habitation and the Radiant City

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

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Monument Arthur Rimbaud

Marseille, France

Monument Arthur Rimbaud

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

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ex-voto of ships in Notre-Dame de la Garde

Marseille, France

Notre-Dame de la Garde's Nautical Ex-Voto

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

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