NOTRE-DAME-DE-LA GARDE Home Page An Astonishing Architectural Style... ...And Astonishing Particularities Our Lady of the Guard in numbers "Our Good Mother" from all directions Let's go Inside... A story of abiding tenacity living Faith To Welcome You FORUM A few books

Now, let's move closer How astonishing for tourists : that monument glimpsed from so far away : the closer you come, the less you can see it ! Marseilles is an ancient city and the ways to Our Lady of the Guard go through winding, entangled streets. People may often be seen looking at a map or asking for the way to get there. On the northern slope, coming from the Old Port, leaving the maze of streets you suddenly find yourself in a luxuriantly green Provençal pine forest... Serious reafforestation efforts were undertaken during the first half of the 2Oth century on the sides of this hill which had been devastated from even Roman times.