Parc du 26ème Centenaire

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.