{"id":8998,"date":"2019-08-14T18:50:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T02:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2019-07-24T21:49:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T05:49:52","slug":"marseille-france-chateau-dif-count-of-monte-cristo-island-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/2019\/08\/14\/marseille-france-chateau-dif-count-of-monte-cristo-island-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Marseille France – Chateau d’If – Count of Monte Cristo Island Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marseille, is a port city in the South of France, that has been a crossroads of immigration and trade since its founding by the Greeks around 600 B.C. At its heart is the Vieux-Port, where fishmongers still sell their catch even today along the boat lined harbor. The city is also famous for it’s now closed prison Chateau d’If which is just a short distance from the Old Port area. The prison is famous for the fictional character Edmond Dantes\u00a0 from the book the Count of Monte Cristo who was wrongly held there.<\/p>\n

\"Basilique<\/p>\n

Atop the hill is the Basilique Notre-Dame de la Garde.<\/p>\n

\"Train<\/p>\n

The tourist train ride that takes you up the hill so you can visit Basilique Notre-Dame de la Garde. I think the ride was 7 Euros.<\/p>\n

\"Cath\u00e9drale<\/p>\n

If you visit Marseille France on a Monday, you won’t be able to go inside the Cath\u00e9drale La Major as it is closed. Three guesses what day we visited.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Colorful building we passed and I was able to photograph while riding the train.<\/p>\n

\"Local<\/p>\n

\"Self<\/p>\n

It looks like this might be a drone photograph, but it the reflections of myself and passers by in a mirror that was suspended 30 feet or so above us along the waterline.<\/p>\n

\"Fort<\/p>\n

We passed by Fort Saint-Jean on our way to one of the more famous prisons in the world.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The prison walls of Ch\u00e2teau d’If which is famous for holding a fictional character, the Count of Monte Cristo.<\/p>\n

\"Great<\/p>\n

The prison offers nice views of the host city, Marseille France.<\/p>\n

\"White<\/p>\n

The Big Wheel located in the Old Port area of Marseille, France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marseille, is a port city in the South of France, that has been a crossroads of immigration and trade since its founding by the Greeks around 600 B.C. At its heart is the Vieux-Port, where fishmongers still sell their catch even today along the boat lined harbor. The city is also famous for it’s now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[]},"categories":[2692,3],"tags":[2805,2551,2658,2804,2640,2564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8998"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9019,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions\/9019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}