Plages du Prado
Reclaimed shoreline of lawns and pebble beach, built from metro-tunnel rubble for free public picnics and swimming.
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Plages du Prado in Marseille traces how this stretch of beach got here at all: mistral winds once drenched the coast road with no barrier to break them, until mayor Gaston Defferre decided the fix should be a free public gift rather than pools or private marinas. You'll hear how metro-tunnel rubble dumped through the 1970s and 80s became twenty-six hectares of brand-new coastline. Listen for how the picnic crowds on the lawn and the restaurant terraces near the Escale Borely share the same ground today.
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