La Capelette
La Capelette is a quarter ( French quarter ) in the 10th arrondissement (city district) of the southern French city of Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône department .
history
The name of the district goes back to a small chapel that was built in the 12th century (“capelette” means “petite chapelle”) and is located on the Boulevard Fernand Bonnefoy , near the meeting point with Avenue de la Capelette , found. As a result of the French Revolution , the chapel was closed on December 24, 1791, but reopened at the beginning of the 19th century. After the chapel was badly damaged by fire in 2005, it was demolished in 2014. Across the street is the Palais Omnisports Marseille Grand-Est ice rink (at number 12 on Boulevard Bonnefoy) .
The district to the southeast of the port city of Marseille developed at the beginning of the 19th century when swamps were drained and the soil was cultivated. The industrialization and the railroad that soon began gave the area a decisive boost in development.
In the 1920s, many Italian families, especially from northern Italy , settled in La Capelette, which thereby acquired the reputation of an " Italian quarter ".
The district was cut through by the bridges and highways built in the 1960s and 1970s.
In 2012/13 the Roma camp La Capelette was located here .
Web links
- La Capelette near Tout-sur-Marseille (TSM; French, accessed August 9, 2017)
- La Capelette at MarseilleForum (French; accessed August 9, 2017)
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean-Claude Izzo: The Marseille Trilogy . Unionsverlag, Zurich 2004, p. 546. ISBN 3-293-00332-X
Coordinates: 43 ° 16 ′ 45.9 ″ N , 5 ° 24 ′ 18.9 ″ E