• The mobilization of the Sites & Monuments association, which launched a petition against the infilling of the Greek quarry, received strong support: that of Stéphane Bern.

  • This ancient Marseilles site, partly classified as a historic monument, is destined for burial thanks to the construction of a building.

"Save the Corderie, at the origins of Marseille".

This message is signed by Stéphane Bern on a photo of this ancient Marseilles site partly classified as historical monuments, and yet promised to be buried thanks to the construction of a building.

Will this support from “Mr. ?

We owe it to the mobilization of the Sites & Monuments association, which launched a petition against the backfilling of the Greek quarry.

It has received more than 4,500 signatures to date.


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The decision of the prefecture, motivated by the protection of the site currently exposed to the elements, had strongly reacted to the town hall of Marseille: "At a time when the people of Marseilles are reclaiming their city, their public spaces and their heritage, the “State explains to them here coldly that their history, their destiny, does not belong to them”, had thus declared in a press release Benoît Payan.

Uncovered in 2017 by preventive archeology (INRAP), during the construction of a building, the stone quarry of the rope factory had aroused strong mobilization for its safeguard.

A fight that the defenders of the quarry thought they had won when the Minister of Culture at the time, Françoise Nissen, decided to classify 635 m2 of remains as historical monuments.

These defenders have not said their last word by winning, with Stéphane Bern, a weight support.

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