Content | Fall 2008 Issue | Bridges

Roads of the Diaspora: Côte D’Azure

Chateau d'If

The Chateau d'If, where one of Dumas' most renowned characters, the Count of Monte Cristo, languished in captivity.

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JAF Nice

text by RAFAEL HOVHANNISYAN

According to a famous song, every coastline and every seashore is unique. There are the shores we’d like to forget, such as the Turkish Shore. There are foreign shores, such as the Ivory Coast in West Africa or Bondi Beach in Australia. Finally, there is the Côte D’Azur: the most gorgeous and the most familiar of all European shores.

Real places and real things rarely live up to our imaginations. Marseille, however, does just that – it is a dazzling city by the sea, festive, cheerful, ethnically and culturally diverse and more than a little bit adventurous, depending on what the visitor has in mind.


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