Do you know the real history of Canebière?
The city's most famous avenue has a tumultuous history marked by commerce, splendor, wealth, old-fashioned costumes and fishing.
Indeed Marseille was one of the largest hemp trading posts in the world for the manufacture and trade of slings and ropes. La Canebière (formerly “la Cannebis”) comes from the Provençal canebe, which itself comes from the Latin cannabis, meaning hemp.
From the old port – Marseille – at the old bridge – Avignon :
An authentic local product, hemp is omnipresent in the collective consciousness of Provence.
The history and products according to the ancient art of the apothecary Canebounes , hemp growers, cultivators and traders from the old bridge to the old port.