Explore Some of Our Favorite Spots in South Bend☘️

Fiddler's Hearth

Lasalle Kitchen & Tavern

The Lauber

South Bend Brew Works

Ironhand Wine Bar

Crooked Ewe

The Neo-gothic style basilica is the tallest university chapel in the U.S. and is home to the largest collection of 19th century French stained glass in the world.

A small piece of stone from the original grotto in France is located on the right-hand side of the shrine directly below the statue of Mary.

Founded by French priest Edward Sorin in 1842, Father Sorin named the school in honor of Our Lady in his native tongue, “L’Université de Notre Dame du Lac”:

The University of Our Lady of the Lake.

The stadium was originally designed by Osborn Engineering Co. - the same firm that designed Comiskey Park in Chicago and New York's Yankee Stadium and Polo Grounds.

Click here to read about how the Word of Life mural on the library facade became known as "Touchdown Jesus." 

Opened this past December within the 9-acre Hayes Family Sculpture Park, the 70,000-square-foot building features 23 state-of-the-art galleries that highlight ND's nearly 31,000 item collection, one of the oldest & most highly regarded at an academic institution in the US.

Regilded in 23.9-karat gold leaf this past year for the 12th time since it was added to the main building in 1883, the Golden Dome features a 19-foot-tall, 4,000-pound statue of Mary, the Mother of God.

65,000 square feet of retail space means two packed floors of shopportunities! One of five bookstores in the country named in recognition of the Hammes family, this is their flagship store.

The 22-acre cemetery was established in 1843 by Rev. Edward Sorin and provides a place of dignified Christian burial for members of the ND community and their families (& notably, Regis Philbin!)