We are not just travellers, we are citizens; not citizens of the world, but of our cities . A trip is a “purchase” emptied of meaning if it does not teach us what a territory is really experiencing together with its citizens, if we do not take their requests to heart and if, when we see a positive phenomenon, we do not bring home what we have experienced.
I am Sabrina Barbante, If you appreciate this particular way of chinese overseas europe data doing travel blogging, if you want to know and decode the social present of the destinations you visit, this travel blog is your home. Follow me on Instagram , find me on TikTok and Subscribe to my newsletter The Panier, Marseille The Marseille Basket Le Panier is not only the historic district of Marseille ; Le Panier is the history of Marseille , a place that reminds us how cultural contaminations generate art and beauty, how immigration is a process as irreversible as it is positive and how tourism can give a lot to a city.
Le Panier was the dangerous neighborhood of Marseille, where the smuggling of cigarettes and drugs led the Corsican criminal underworld to extend its powers over streets, houses, and inhabitants. Then came the much hated “mass tourism”, which appeared in these little streets, bringing a new perspective and even more well-being.
Today, people from the Far East and the Middle East settle here , along with students from all over Europe , French and Southern European artists. Le Panier is now a chaotic but safe place, colorful but liveable, and even that criminal past becomes a poetic and ironic narration, a tragicomic crime novel that can be read in its beautiful murals, in the postcards painted by artists, in the art and craft shops, in the graphics of the T-shirts that even make fun of crime.