⛵A Cove sheltered from storms
Sheltered from the wind, Port-Miou was used by ships as an anchorage area very early on. Since Antiquity, it has been referred to as Portus melior, meaning “the best port”.
🪨The Cassis stone
A 115 million year old rock, which contains shells of organisms, from the distant era when the Calanques were submerged, has in fact undergone massive artisanal and then industrial exploitation.
Port-Miou was a mecca for the extraction of “Cassis stone”, a fine and compact limestone, known for its solidity.
The Romans used this material to build the paving stones of the port of Massilia and to carve paleochristian sarcophagi visible in the crypt of the abbey of Saint-Victor in Marseille
Create the sidewalks and bases of buildings in Marseille in the 19th century, erect the Major Cathedral, the Planier lighthouse, the Rove tunnel, the quays of the ports of Marseille, Toulon, Alexandria, Port Said and those of the Canal de Sweat!
Used throughout Provence, notably for the manufacture of traditional wash basins and sinks (the “piles” as they are called locally).
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⛵A cove sheltered from storms
Sheltered from the wind, Port-Miou was used by ships as an anchorage area very early on. Since Antiquity, it has been referred to as Portus melior, meaning “the best port”. Roman ships stop there, just like the galleys of the Middle Ages.
🪨The stone of Cassis
A 115 million year old rock, which contains shells of organisms, from the distant era when the Calanques were submerged, has in fact undergone massive artisanal and then industrial exploitation.
Port-Miou was a mecca for the extraction of “Cassis stone”, a fine and compact limestone, known for its solidity.
The Romans used this material to build the paving stones of the port of Massilia and to carve paleochristian sarcophagi visible in the crypt of the abbey of Saint-Victor in Marseille
Create the sidewalks and bases of buildings in Marseille in the 19th century, erect the Major Cathedral, the Planier lighthouse, the Rove tunnel, the quays of the ports of Marseille, Toulon, Alexandria, Port Said and those of the Suez Canal!
Used throughout Provence, notably for the manufacture of traditional washbasins and sinks (the “piles” as they are called locally).