Pagnol's château
The castle he immortalised in My Mother's Castle.
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Marseille and Provence's most famous writer (1895–1974) — novelist and filmmaker who painted the French south and his childhood in it with immortal nostalgia (My Father's Glory, My Mother's Castle), the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. For non-French visitors he may be a new name — the visit then a stroll more than a literary pilgrimage.
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The Château de la Buzine is the "Castle of My Mother" of Marcel Pagnol's literature: the famous Marseillais writer bought this château in the city's eastern hills to make a film studio, then discovered it was the very castle that terrified his childhood in his immortal memoirs — immortalising it in his book My Mother's Castle. Today it is a cultural centre devoted to Mediterranean cinema and Pagnol's memory. The nineteenth-century château sits in a large park with a lake and trees — a quiet outing far from the port's bustle, with an exhibition on Pagnol and the films that painted Provence into France's soul. For lovers of French literature and cinema, a moving visit; for others, a pleasant park stroll on the city's edge.
The castle he immortalised in My Mother's Castle.
A quiet stroll away from the port's bustle.
56 traverse du Commandeur, 13011 Marseille