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Built to prevent attacks from Pirates the tower will lit a fire if in danger to allert the locals. Out of 110 built only about 60 remains.
Uploaded: Jun, 20 2006 | Taken: Jun, 15 2006| Viewed: 26 times  | 4 votes

davidx - Jun, 20 2006 11:06am
I'll have to look at an atlas! What is the significance of its name, though?

marianne - Jun, 21 2006 03:06am
isabelle,
I like these towers. They are found all over the mediterranean. It must have been a dangerous sea at some time.

frenchfrog - Jun, 21 2006 11:06am
The name come from the Italian town of Genoa, at one time Corsica belong to Itality. Genoa suffered a succession of political plots and foreign occupations. Genoa interested itself little in Corsica..

frenchfrog - Jun, 21 2006 11:06am
Genoa really only fully established itself there by the middle of the 14th century, during which time the island was threatened by plague.
The Genoese period ended with the War of Independence (1729


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