Only once before have I featured a lighthouse in Romania; the country has a short coastline on the Black Sea, and there are several lighthouses, both old and relatively new, on that coastline.
This one is a historical lighthouse, since replaced by something taller and closer to the coast, but this is more traditional. First of all, let's see where it is. What you will see if you click that link is that it is also called the Genovese Lighthouse.
Genovese Lighthouse is also the name of this website, which has more history. It can be read in English.
The Lighthouse Directory provides these excerpts:
"1886. Reactivated in 2020 but unofficial; inactive as an official light since 1913; charted as a landmark; continuous (?) white light. 8 m (26 ft) octagonal stone tower with lantern and gallery. The lighthouse is unpainted; lantern painted black or very dark blue. ... this tower was built by Genoese traders around 1300 and was restored around 1860. "Restored" may mean "rebuilt," but in any case this historic lighthouse was restored again in 1948 and has become a fairly well known tourist attraction. It was relighted in February 2020 after several years of effort by interested volunteers. It stands near the Casino on a headland projecting into the Black Sea north of the harbor but close to Constanţa's downtown business district."
So if you're a tourist in Romania, check it out in person. Here's what it looks like:
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