A no man's land between two real estate projects from the late XVIth. century : le Quartier Mazarin, le Quartier Villeneuve. The rue d'Italie formally called "la Via Aurélia" stood outside the city walls until the late XIXth. century. The rue de l'Opéra, mostly walked by tourist that want to see Cézanne's birth place at n° 28.