Beach
Plage de Saint-Estève
Plage de Saint-Estève, 13007 Marseille
Quarried cove of sand and pebbles between a hospital and a fort, once the site of a nineteenth-century stone quarry.
This guide to Plage de Saint-Estève in Marseille traces the beach's life as a nineteenth-century stone quarry, where six hundred workers and two hundred horses camped from 1822 to cut limestone for a major Marseille building project. It follows the Italian stonecutters who worked here, the quarantine hospital built nearby for yellow fever patients, and the accident that finally shut the quarry down in 1878. Look at the cove's two shorelines, sand on one side and loose pebbles on the other, each holding a different chapter of the dig.
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