Perrodin explains that, like Alexandria, Egypt, Marseille was a “lighthouse city.” A key commercial gateway, a port city that has attracted all comers, it thrived as a polyglot trading colony while Paris was still just a village. “My favorite Marseillais saying is, ‘First you have the sea, then the city, and beyond that is another country called France.’” “Our city has a particular geography,” says Perrodin. Passenger ferries chug to and from the modern successors of the Roman trading ports of Béjaïa and Annaba in Algeria, as well as the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia. The panorama over France’s third-largest city takes in the seemingly limitless sea, ramparts of 17th-century forts and a few cereal silos from the 1920s.
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Now, mucem exhibits olive-oil amphorae from Anatolia, soapmaking paraphernalia from Syria, and sailing charts that show how to navigate from Algiers without running aground on the island of Mallorca.Ītop the museum, Emmanuel Perrodin, Marseille’s leading culinary historian, sips black coffee. Culinary historian Emmanuel Perrodin says the city’s cultures, traditions and foods influenced by centuries of trade and migration throughout the Mediterranean make Marseille unique.įive hundred years later the Mediterranean became Rome’s nexus of trade and empire, and Marseille became one of its maritime centers.
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