Basilique Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde / Marseille

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The "good mother" guardian of sailors and fishermen since the Middle Ages, takes her place on a limestone outcropping elevated to 149 meters in altitude, 13 meters higher thanks to the walls and substructures of an ancient fort built by François Ier. \nThe chapel built in the XI century becomes basilica in the middle of XIX century.\nAfter the vicissitudes of History, the final completion of the Basilica will take place more than forty years after the laying of the first stone.\nAt the top of a square bell tower 41 meters high topped by a kind of tower 12.5 meters tall that serves as a pedestal, stands a monumental statue of 11.2 meters of the Virgin and Child made of gold leaf copper.\nThe Basilica and its mosaics have been meticulously restored from 2001 to 2008.\nsource wikipedia\nPhotogrammetric rendering test issued from satellite images\n(awaiting better results)