The Colours of La Seyne-sur-Mer 🇲🇫
That was a bascu bridge over the water here finished 19 I know the end of the first world war but for decades it is remained upright and it’s now some kind of observation tower instead. So, it’s not used as a bridge. It’s not put down anymore. It’s It’s always upright. There you go. Bit of useless information there, but that that is what that is. It’s a former bridge. Maybe it got stuck. Maybe that’s uh why it’s upright. Right. So, I’ve come in from the north from the uh the same C4 train station. Um, I’ve skirted the center which is here. I’ve gone out east out there on my hand. So now I’m just hoovering up the central murals. This one has been looking at me for about the past half hour. Impressive. Another no stencil art. Another 24. It says Mini Fest. I’ve seen several references to Mini Fest. So, obviously they’ve got a a paint festival, a mini fest that comes here every year. Every other year, I don’t know. Look at that. Bang. I think that may be 2024. This one on the other hand several years prior given it has faded by the looks of it. Ah, we got another covered square or square with some trees. I can see a mural. It’s a little faded. That one doesn’t say year on it. Wow, this looks like a fairly new one. Just a white van. Always a bloody van, isn’t there? Always a van. I get it from here. The hole of fish. And you can still smell it even though they’ve cleared it cleared what’s left away. Oh, they got another one. Not surprisingly, it’s a fisherman. It’s very sleepy. Probably quite a word. I mean, we’re on Friday. Not on Friday. We’re on Thursday lunchtime. That was in the Thursday lunchtime and it’s there’s nobody really around Borday. This square is the entrance way to the historic center by the former road to Tulong. The entire old town center was built on the successive landfills from digging the port. Many of the town center squares and narrow streets were rebuilt after the 1944 bobbings. Again, it is a little bit deserted. Little stage area there, I’m sure. Uh oh, look there. Some street art. Um will be for performances there. easy performances or whatever. At some point I can spot two. Two for the price of one veil stencil. I found another veil stencil in La Pier couple of days ago. Look at this bale stencil again. [Music] Well, that’s another fantastic little stencil. Unfortunately, it also has added street furniture in uh in the yellow van. Look at this. Look at that from Eur 2025. Excuse me. Yeah. So, that’s uh Well, you can tell by the colors. The colors still there, but that’s uh Good spot. I mean, it will fade, but you know, it’s protected by this building here. But yeah, great mural. I’m loving this town. Old one here. Getting dizzy as to how many there are here. 2023. Um, that’s half of one. I need to see it from over here. Are they going to stop? Oh, yeah. Just stop for me. Please go on. It’s all right. I’m being powered by Smurfs at the moment. That’s a um a Grandpa Smurf and um I think that’s just a normal Smurf. I’m just jumping in there cuz it’s it’s quite hot. Another fountain. Hello there. up there. I’ve just done that one, haven’t I? Yeah, cuz I’m starting to lose it as to where I am. Um, my sense of direction is gradually. Um, I think just with the sun. Uh, I have studied this area. Uh, and I’ I would say that I’ve hoovered up virtually all of them. There’s a What else we got? There’s a smurf. Smurfet. See you later. And again another standard smurf. More Lego by lens. Wow. More flower pods. [Music] Get off the road. [Music] You’ve seen that mural just now next to another massive one here. Hopefully you can see it. That’s bright sunlight. We’ve got another one here. 2025. Some fresh colors. And you’ve got one actually that I didn’t I’d actually walked past and didn’t realize was here. This one here. [Music] as relatively new piece. Well, it is new piece 2024. We are at the port area and basically I’ve just about finished. I think there may be one over there but what can I say? This is an outstanding area of beauty um for street art. Street art aside, it’s still an outstanding outstanding area of beauty. So yeah, Leain Sume. Uh it’s on the Marseilles Tulong railway line. It’s actually the stop before Tulong. Um I paid €15 uh well €30 altogether return. And yeah, it’s a it’s a great day out. It’s very quiet here today as I said earlier. I don’t know. It’s like half the place has been evacuated. I mean, there’s a lot of cars here. I don’t know where all the people are. they’re not outside eating lunch. That’s normally a kind of good indicator of how healthy somewhere is is like everybody’s out eating certainly on a lunchtime. Uh but not a lot of people out eating. Uh let’s end with this mural here. So from Lass until the next time Heat. [Music] Heat.
• MARSEILLE, FRANCE in 4K: The second part of this adventure travelling out east from Marseille via train to La Seyne-sur-Mer, a city matted with artwork thanks to its annual paint festival, Minifest.
“Minifest is a vibrant street art festival held each year in the heart of La Seyne-sur-Mer, France. Organized by the city in collaboration with the Graphik Art association since 2021, it transforms public spaces into an open-air gallery through live mural painting, exhibitions, workshops, and artist talks – all free and open to everyone.
Now in its 5th edition (June 9–16, 2025).”
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