Place Castellane

This guide to Place Castellane in Marseille starts with the public washhouse that stood here from 1798, where the city's laundresses knelt scrubbing linen for over a century. It follows Jules Cantini, a marble merchant who in 1911 offered to replace the washhouse with a monumental fountain, and the sculptor André-Joseph Allar who spent years carving it, borrowing one figure's pose from Bernini. Look for the column's four figures, representing the Durance, the Gardon, the Rhône and the sea.