Marseille and the neighboring municipalities, united under the heading ‘Marseille Provence’, is this year’s European Capital of Culture, along with the Slovakian city of Kosice. With this as pretext some buildings have gone up, and hundreds of events are set to take place in the course of 2013. And all this with a Mediterranean bent, as befits Marseille, a port city that has since time immemorial been open to immigration...