Lighthouse of Montorsoli

The administration of the city in 1555 entrusted to Giovanni Montorsoli Angel the assignment to construct a tower in a position to receiving a guard because it supervised on the raids of the pirati ones and in order to make light the sailors. Tower of the Garofalo was in origin the name because in the sea, not a lot distant from that point of the coast, formed and shape still today a said vortex "u garofulo", a lot feared for the sailors of that age who entrusted their fate to the addle and the sail of their boats. The tower, of square shape, is risen for 42 meters of height. In the surrounding zone there are I placed you of fuels, the river basin of arenaggio, shipyards.