Martigues

Martigues (in Occitan Of Provence Lo Martegue according to the traditional standard or Lou Martegue according to the Standard mistralienne) is a French city of the Rhone delta in Provence, also known under the name of “Venice of Provence”. The name of Martigues comes from an old reconstituted Latin form, Marticum , composed of the pre-indo-European root mart- “rock” and Latin termination - icum ; this name referred to the Étang of Berre as “a pond of the rocks”. The inhabitants are called martégaux and martégales , but one can also speak about martégao and martégallois .

Administration

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Geography

Satellite sight with Wikimapia Martigues is located in edge of the Étang of Berre, on both sides of the Canal of Caronte which connects the Pond to the Mediterranean.

The commune extends from the Blue Coast while passing by the hamlets of Saint-Pierre-the-Martigues, Saint-Julien-the-Martigues, the Crown, Carro, Lavéra, until that of Cross-Holy in north for a total of 7.144 hectares including 697 hectares of forest and 40 kilometers linear maritime including 11 on the coast méditerranéenne.
The name of Martigues is attached to its Pluriel, indeed one spoke about Martigues in 1890 more.

The city is composed of three districts: Tool bags in north (side the Camargue), the Island on the channel and Jonquières in the south (side Blue Coast).

Economy

It is the 3rd city in importance of the department.

  • Antenna of the Chamber of commerce and industry Marseilles-Provence.

Media

  • the city has its radio and its local Télévision, respectively:
    • Radio operator Maritima, created in 1982,
    • Maritima Channel, created in 1994.
  • Since 1987, the city publishes its monthly magazine of local information: Reflections.

Demography

The inhabitants are Martégales and Martégaux.

Source: INSEE, Population without double account

Culture

  • Each summer is held contests of Joute S of Provence on the channels.
  • Since 1989, between July and August, takes place the “Festival of Martigues: Dances, Musics and Voice of the World. ” The town of Martigues lodges association “Capouliero”, organizing of the festival and ambassadress of the folklore of Provence.
  • the municipal brass band of the City celebrated its 100 years the June 25th 2006.

Music

  • Festival of Chamber music of Martigues (created in April 1988) - Baroque music with the current music - 20th edition in July 2007
  • Side song, one will retain Adieu, Venice of Provence , creates by Alibert in the operetta of Vincent Scotto merry Arènes , words of Henri Alibert and Rene Sarvil, music of Vincent Scotto (1934). Operetta adapted twice to the cinema (see section “Cinema”)

Cinema

If the most popular film martégal is undoubtedly the Kitchen with butter (1963) with Bourvil and Fernandel, Martigues, passing, with time, of the small town of fisherman in the strongly industrialized city aves its petrochemical complexes established on its shores, is the place of turning, almost every thirty years, of a social film emblematic reflecting the crucial problems of its time:
  • - Jean Renoir, with Toni in 1935, films the difficulties of the massive arrival of Italian immigration.
  • - Bernard Paul, in full month of May 1968, studies with sensitivity a seeking couple of workmen of new reference marks in a consumer society to excess devouring Time to live .
  • - In 1995, the Marseillais Robert Guédiguian films a bunch which survives after a fashion, thanks to its beautiful interdependent dash With the life, with death! , in its cottages and with its poor combine (the cabaret of the “blue Parrot” on the beach).
  • - Lastly, in 2002, it is another Marseillais, Paul Carpita, which will treat, in the ton of the comedy, of serious subjects like those of the Délocalisation and of its effects on the Emploi in France ( Marche and dream! Lobsters of the Utopia ).

With its luminosity which in made a famous place of the painters (André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Auguste Renoir, Felix Ziem), the agglomeration martégale does not fail to attract a whole diversity of realizers who find their account in pine forests, picturesque garrigues, beaches and channels for their dramas and their comedies of Provence or police:

Literature

Martigues is the birthplace of the academician Charles Maurras. In its marked speech the July 11th 1888 at the company of the Félibres of Paris, chaired this evening by Maurice Faure, former minister and vice-president of the Senate, then appointed Drome, Charles Maurras delivers his indéfectible attachment to its birthplace. It is a kind of preamble to its enumeration of the “ Thirty beauties of Martigues ” from which there remains about it little, the majority having been éradiquées by the modern era (the fishing and its fleet of tartanes, the saltworks, the 12 mills, etc):

Since we are here to speak about our countries of origin, I then to say it well to you, it is Martigues which I see in these moments. Some ground discs surrounded by the sea, three small islands which make the chain with laying down pond of Berre, with a ribbon of houses which floats on two banks: it would be said that they are there to moor in the continent the three pearls which water would carry or which she engloutirait.
“I likes my village better than your village”, sings us Felix Gras. I it believe well, that I like it! And all my compatriots are like me. Our men of sea know something of it. Formerly, that a vessel left Marseilles and that one as of ours ordered there, with the best wind, the sea moved just enough to gently cart it with Sète, Barcelona or Majorque, do you believe that our captain could move away thus? Ah! But not! Over there, the three bell-towers of the fatherland gleamed. Quickly! A change of course on Goat, quickly, the boat with the sea to carry out it to Martigues, and to embrace last once the places sharp of its heart!

Painting

More than very other, Felix Ziem (1821 - 1911) will be “the painter” of Martigues. Born with Beaune and made at the School of Art of Dijon, after its initiatory voyages of artist in Italy where it remained a long time with Venice, it is in Martigues that it will make build his workshop, cradle of a multitude of paintings, watercolours and drawings. It will give to the city its will have of “Venice of Provence” beyond what it hoped for when it wrote: “I leave for the South to push an observation and workload peak. The ceaseless work of the workshop irritates me and erases the memories. I thus think of seeing Sète, Martigues, Marseilles, of making some studies of sea, mountain, of nature, some impressions being able to produce a result. ”

Gastronomy

  • a speciality martégale: the Poutargue, also called “Martégal Caviar”, egg S dried of various fish mule S.
  • Production of wine classified AOC Slopes of Aix-en-Provence, Venice Of Provence , by the co-operative of Saint-Julien-the-Martigues, created in 1958 (crop year martégale).

Personalities

Anecdotes

  • the Marseilles actor Titoff passed, without much result, by the training center of the Football Club of Martigues before launching out, successfully, in the humorous One-man-show.

Codes

Martigues has as codes:
  • MT, according to the List of the maritime districts,

FC Martigues

  • the club martégal evolves/moves in this moment in National.

See too

External bonds

  • Official site of the town hall of Martigues
  • history of Martigues
  • Official site of the Tourist office of Martigues
  • the Community gate of Martégaux

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