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Monument Attractions In Marseille

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Marseille is the second-largest city of France. The main city of the historical province of Provence, today it is the capital of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It is located on France's south coast, covering an area of 241 km2 and had a population of 852,516 in 2012. Its metropolitan area, which covers 3,173 km2 is the third-largest in France after Paris and Lyon, with a population of 1,831,500 as of 2010.Known to the ancient Greeks and Romans as Massalia , Marseille was an important European trading centre and remains the main commercial port of the French Republic. Marseille is now France's largest city...
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Monument Attractions In Marseille

  • 1. Monument Aux Morts Des Orients Marseille
    This is a listing of the major works of Louis Botinelly, a French sculptor born in Digne on 2 January 1883 and dying in Marseille on 26 March 1962. His father was a mason, originally from Tessin in Switzerland, who had a workshop in Digne before the family moved to Marseille when his father inherited a workshop there from his brother. Thanks to a bursary from the city of Marseille, Botinelly was able to stay in Italy for a period in 1902 and then study in Paris under Jules Coutan. He moved to Paris in 1906. In 1914 he was conscripted and joined the 7th Regiment of Engineers in Avignon. The huge demand for war memorials after 1918 meant that in the early 1920s he received many commissions for war memorial sculptures as evidenced in the listing below. In some records the sculptor's name is r...
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  • 2. Place Castellane Marseille
    The Place Castellane is a historic square in the 6th arrondissement of Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. It was built in 1774.
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