The St Maura district has long been a transit district, the first settlement for migratory flows. This was the case in the 20th century with the Italians as evidenced by the names of the streets (Rue Barbini, rue Barsotti, etc.), as evidenced by the names of many current or past inhabitants such as the sculptor Cesar Baldachini. Then there were returnees from North Africa, particularly from Tunisia, then came immigrants from the Maghreb, Comorian families and for several years a strong Cape Verdean presence. Maura (Mauraus in Latin) was a bishop of Marseille in the 8th century. He was a monk of theSaint-Victor Abbey of Marseille, then abbot of Saint-Victor and finally bishop of Marseille. He is celebrated in Marseille on October 21, the supposed day of his death. History has left us little information about his life, apart from his intervention with Charlemagne in Herstal to obtain the restitution of the property of the church and the abbey of Saint-Victor. This is attested by the judicial minutes of a trial in Digne in 782. The church of Horgues in the diocese of Tarbes-Lourdes is placed under the name of Saint Maura, bishop of Marseille in the XNUMXth century. His cult was spread by the abbey of Saint Victor on which that of the Abbey of Saint-Savin-en-Lavedan depended. A chapel in the abbey of Saint-Victor bears his name.
The district has some curiosities, between the Saint Maura church, theWork Hava, the former Fournier Factory, the liquorice factory of Lorette, Free Docks, Toursky Theater, an old municipal wash house, the Spinelly Garden and monumental works of street-art, Toussaint Victorine counter...
