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Listed building · Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat

Phare du Cap Ferrat

The lighthouse at the southern tip, rebuilt 1949–52 after 1944

Phare du Cap Ferrat
Photo: Tangopaso / Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

A sixteenth-century fire tower once guided ships into the Rade de Villefranche from this point; the engineers of Piedmont-Sardinia replaced it with a lighthouse, restored in 1827–28, which German troops destroyed in 1944. The present octagonal stone tower was built by the Ponts et Chaussées from 1949 and lit in 1952; it is automated, and stands about a hundred metres from the Grand-Hôtel.

Phare du Cap Ferrat is a listed building on Chemin de la Carrière in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. The bus stop La Mauresque is 400 m away (about 6 min on foot).

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Chemin de la Carrière: the streetThe plot, on VERA PIAll of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat

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