The Basilique Notre-Dame de la Garde – translated as Our Lady of the Guard – was built in the 1850s on the foundation of Marseille's ancient fortress. Today, this working Catholic basilica ...

The statue of the Virgin Mary that has kept watch over the French port city of Marseille and its seafarers for more than a ...

The Virgin and Child statue enthroned at the top of Marseille's Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde basilica is getting a makeover this ...

A huge golden statue of the Virgin Mary that has for more than a century watched over the French port city of Marseille and ...

Little model boats hang from the ceiling and maritime paintings adorn the walls of the basilica of Notre Dame de la Garde, which from the city's highest hill overlooks the bay of Marseille ...