La Corniche Kennedy

This guide to La Corniche Kennedy in Marseille follows the Swiss-born engineer Franz Mayor de Montricher, who took on the task of bringing drinking water into a cholera-stricken city in the 1830s. You'll hear how he chose to carry the Durance river's water over a valley by aqueduct rather than under it by siphon, and how the same public-works drive later put unemployed Marseille workers onto this very corniche during the 1848 revolution. The guide also follows his design down to the little cove of Vallon des Auffes ahead, where a stone bridge carries his name forward.