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Marseille Europe's Culture Capital for 2013

The ancient Mediterranean sea port of Marseille - today a bustling city of over one million inhabitants - has won the race to become the European Capital of Culture in 2013, beating fellow French rivals Bordeaux, Lyon and Toulouse. They celebrate it with this little video:

Read all about the build-up and future plans (in English) on their website.

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Comment from General Pepper
Time: September 18, 2008, 10:28 am

Please, could you switch off the Auto-Run?

Comment from romke
Time: September 18, 2008, 10:30 am

There is no Auto-Run on my Firefox display…

Comment from General Pepper
Time: September 18, 2008, 1:58 pm

hmmm… its in the HTML somewhere: instructions to auto-launch the launch of Sainte Mère each time the page is opened (even back and forth from the "comments" page)
Ça m enerve, enfin.
Oh well, i ll have a Gitanes & be patient until Marseille is pushed to p.2 ;)

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