cours Honoré-d'Estienne-d'Orves

This guide traces cours Honore-d'Estienne-d'Orves in Marseille back to its start as a royal galley arsenal, built up over more than a century under successive kings and Louis XIV's minister Colbert. It follows the convicts chained to the oars, the hospital built to patch them up, and the arsenal's slow fall from favor as galleys went out of fashion. From there it follows the ground through a filled-in canal, a leased parking garage, and its transformation into the market square you're standing in.