Plage de Saint-Estève
Quarried cove of sand and pebbles between a hospital and a fort, once the site of a nineteenth-century stone quarry.
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This guide to Plage de Saint-Estève on Ratonneau island, Marseille, starts in 1822, when this shore was a building site and not a beach. It follows the workers and horses who cut stone from the islands for the Berry dike, and the quarantine hospital that rose beside them on a belief about wind. Best heard at the water's edge, with Hôpital Caroline and the old fort in view.
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