Parc du 26ème Centenaire
Former railway freight yard reborn as a landscaped park of themed gardens and a fountain-lined canal.
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This guide to Parc du 26ème Centenaire follows architect Bernard Huet, who in nineteen ninety-eight looked at a derelict rail yard that had served as Marseille's garbage station and saw twenty-six centuries of history instead. You'll hear how he refused to bulldoze the old platform pillars and hangar, folding rusted tracks into a fountain-lined canal and four themed gardens tracing everywhere Marseille has traded. Stand on the old platform stone now, still exactly where the trains once loaded, beneath twenty-six sequoias planted to outlive everyone watching.
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