L’Estaque

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On Marseille's northern outskirts the little port of L'Estaque is renowned as an epicentre of the impressionist, Fauvist and cubist movements. A trail follows the footsteps of Renoir, Cézanne, Dufy and Braque around the port and shabby old town. On the water’s edge, buy some chichis frégis (sugar-coated doughnuts) and panisses (chickpea-flour cakes) to munch.

Bus 35 from Joliette runs to L'Estaque several times an hour.

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