Plage de la Vieille Chapelle

This guide to Plage de la Vieille Chapelle in Marseille follows songwriter Vincent Scotto, son of Italian cabinetmakers, who wandered this cove in the late 1800s looking for a seaside chapel that had already been torn down decades earlier. It traces the cove's earlier life as a scruffy family leisure spot, complete with a restaurateur nicknamed Monsieur Vinaigre, and the young Scotto's start singing his own songs around Marseille from 1906 onward, guitar in hand, before Paris ever heard his name.