Marseille - Notre Dame de la Garde - L'Enfant ND
| Copper plated steel | 3.97 g | - |
| Location | France |
|---|---|
| Issuing company | Euroscope |
| Type | Souvenir medallions › Elongated coins |
| Composition | Copper plated steel |
| Weight | 3.97 g |
| Size | 35.5 × 22 mm |
| Thickness | 1 mm |
| Shape | Oval |
| Technique | Roller milled (5 euro cent coin) |
| Updated | 2024-11-12 |
| Numista | N#329190 |
|---|---|
| Rarity index | 93% |
Reverse
Smooth, even.
Edge
Plain
Comment
It straddles the Roucas-Blanc and Vauban districts, on a 149 m-high limestone peak raised 13 m by the walls and foundations of a former fort. Built by Protestant architect Henri-Jacques Espérandieu in the Romanesque-Byzantine style and consecrated on June 5, 1864, it replaces a chapel of the same name built in 1214 and rebuilt in the 15th century. Built on the foundations of a 16th-century fort built by François I in 1536 to resist the siege of Charles V, the basilica comprises two parts: a lower church, or crypt, dug into the rock in the Romanesque style, and above it an upper church in the Romano-Byzantine style, decorated with mosaics. Atop a 41-metre-high square bell tower, topped by a 12.5-metre tower that serves as a pedestal, stands a monumental 11.2-metre statue of the Virgin and Child in gilded copper leaf. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilique_Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde
