For some reason, when I was thinking of a lighthouse for this week, the island of Corfu came to my mind. I didn't know if Corfu had a lighthouse, but being a Greek island, I suspected it did.
In fact, it does. It's an active lighthouse, but it isn't in the greatest shape. It's part of an old fortress that overlooks Corfu city. This time, I've got a zoomed-out map that shows where it is on Corfu, and a zoomed-in map that shows where the fortress is.
The Lighthouse Directory provides this information (and also says it is endangered due to poor maintenance, a state to which the pictures attest):
"1828 (British). Active; focal plane 78 m (256 ft); two white flashes every 6 s. 8 m (26 ft) round stone tower with lantern and gallery, attached to a small 1-story stone keeper's cottage. The lighthouse is unpainted; the lantern roof is green. ... The lighthouse was built by the British to light the way to their principal naval base in the Ionian Islands. It stands at the east end of the town of Kérkyra within the Venetian citadel, which withstood repeated sieges by the Turks."
Four pictures are below.
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