Prado Public market

This guide to the Prado market in Marseille follows the 19th-century plan to build the city's own version of Madrid's Prado, led by mayor Antoine Bernex and a group of investors who bought marshy ground south of the city in 1837. It traces the setbacks that slowed the promenade for decades, from costly marshland construction to a financial crisis in the 1870s, after the Duke of Orléans himself cut the ribbon on its first stretch in 1839. Listen for how the avenue fills six mornings a week, from Place Castellane toward the Périer roundabout.