place de Lenche

This guide to place de Lenche in Marseille opens with a shuttered building at number seventeen and a question about a renovation the city paid for but never delivered. It follows the money the city put into the property from 2012 onward, then reaches back to the square's older layers: a Greek trading agora, a royal foundry built under Louis XII, and the Corsican merchant family who gave the square its name. Sit at one of the café terraces here and you're looking at the oldest public space in Marseille.