cours Honoré-d'Estienne-d'Orves
Pedestrian plaza built over a royal galley arsenal, now lined with market stalls and seafood terraces.
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This guide to cours Honoré-d'Estienne-d'Orves in Marseille is about the convicts sentenced to row the king's galleys, and the royal arsenal that once stood where the café tables are today. It follows the Brothers of Saint Vincent de Paul and the hospital they founded in 1646, and an old headquarters building on the square that now sells books and lunch. Best heard standing in the square, with the numbers twenty-three and twenty-five in view.
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