Cracking Marseille’s Street Tough Exterior
<p>If Marseille was a person it would be a tough-talking street fighter, who creates captivating art when one is looking.</p>
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<p>Marseille street art — author’s photo</p>
<p>Marseille is a massive port city on France’s southern coast, and is one of the main entry points for a large percentage of the country’s new immigrants. Waves of newcomers travelled from across Europe and the Mediterranean in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries settling in Marseille and spreading out across France. Many have had to struggle with nothing but their strength and determination, often in low-income blue-collar jobs to survive in their new home.</p>
<p>While Marseille is at the northern edge of the Cote d’Azur it is worlds away from the beaches of Cannes and Nice. It’s the second largest city in France but it’s also the poorest.</p>
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