Basilica · France · Restored
Notre-Dame de la Garde
Notre-Dame de la Garde is a Catholic basilica perched on a high limestone outcrop overlooking Marseille, France, and a long-standing local pilgrimage site and city landmark. The building comprises a rock-cut lower church (crypt) in a Romanesque manner and an upper Neo-Byzantine church richly faced with mosaics, capped by a tall square bell tower that supports a large gilded statue of the Madonna and Child.
First raised
1853
Its prime
1893
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1893
What Notre-Dame de la Garde looked like in its prime.
Perched on a 149 m limestone spur above the Old Port, the basilica rises in two tiers: a low, rock-carved Romanesque crypt under a larger Neo-Byzantine upper church clad in polychrome mosaics and patterned stone. A square 41 m bell tower surges from the roof, topped by a 12.5 m belfry and an 11.2 m gilded copper Madonna and Child that glints gold against the sky. Exterior stone is pale limestone; interiors are mosaic-covered, domed, and richly textured.
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7 places to explore in 1893.
The record describes 7 distinct spots at Notre-Dame de la Garde — including 2 interiors: lower church (crypt) carved from rock, upper church interior and mosaics. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
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