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

Let's go inside... Here, at Our Lady of the Guard, the contrast is particularly strong from outside to inside. The basilica entrance, like that to the crypt, separate two different worlds : the dazzling light of the terrace, perched in the sky above the city and the waves, and the seemingly shadowy dimness inside. Click here Then your eyes adjust to it, and you are astonished to discover the mosaics and polychromy which surround you.