Well, I hope you've heard of St.Tropez, France. Just down the beach from Cannes - yachts, wealthy people, babes in bikinis, really wealthy people, movie stars, expensive cars, fancy restaurants, outrageously wealthy people, topless wealthy babes in cars, etc.
St. Tropez is also located on the Mediterranean Sea coast, and it has lighthouses. The town of St. Tropez is on the peninsula of St. Tropez, which has a couple of lighthouses. One is the "Phare Rouge" (Red Lighthouse), on a jetty right next to the town of St. Tropez. There's one further down the coast at Cap Bénat. There's a couple of other smaller lights, too, and some out in the gulf. But this one is in the center of the peninsula, named Cap Camarat.
There's a Web site about it. The funny thing about the Web site is that the first picture on it is NOT the Cap Camarat lighthouse! (It's actually the Cap Ferrat lighthouse.)
So let's use the Lighthouse Directory to get the basics:
"1837. Active; focal plane 130 m (427 ft); four white flashes every 15 s. 25 m (82 ft) square cylindrical stone tower with lantern and gallery, rising from the center of a square 1-story stone block keeper's house. Tower painted white, lantern black; the keeper's house is painted buff with white trim. ... It is the second highest light in France (after the Phare de Vallauris near Cannes), and it marks a major change in the direction of the coastline south of St.-Tropez. It was strafed by Allied aircraft in 1944 but not seriously damaged."Click here to see the location.
Here are the pictures; I couldn't find a video, surprisingly.
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