Description
Watercolour on paper, La Lanterna, Genoa by Rosamond Constance Talbot (1837-1906).
Image Licence
All Rights Reserved
Image Credit
Courtesy of the National Trust Collection at Lacock Abbey
Location
Lanterna di Genova, Genova, Liguria, Italy
Country
Italy
Tags
Category
Landscapes & Seascapes
TWW Comment
The Lighthouse of Genoa is the main lighthouse for the city's port. Built of masonry, at 76 m (249 ft) it is the world's fifth tallest lighthouse and the second tallest "traditional" one. Between 1543 and the construction of the lighthouse on Île Vierge (France in 1902), it was the tallest lighthouse in the world. When measured as a whole with the natural rock on which it stands, as it is commonly perceived and represented, its height is 117 m (383 ft), which would make it the second tallest lighthouse in the world, the tallest in Europe, and the tallest traditional lighthouse. Rebuilt in its current shape in 1543 replacing the former lighthouse, it is the world's third oldest lighthouse, following the Tower of Hercules in A Coruña, Spain, and Kõpu Lighthouse, on the island of Hiiumaa, Estonia.
