CALLIGLASS SEMAPHORE
Semaphore in Marseille, offering a prodigious view of the coast from La Ciotat, over the Riou islands to Les Goudes.
Built in 1860, the 109-meter-high former telegraph tower was used to monitor sea entrances from the Napoleonic era onwards, sending optical signals to warn of enemy activity. It replaced the lookout post built in 1302: the Farossium in loco de Masselhaveyra, which stood on the heights of Marseilleveyre. It offers an unobstructed view of the entire coastline, from La Ciotat to the Marseilles roadstead, via the Riou and Frioul islands. The Croisette semaphore's warning battery was armed with 2 cannons in 1939, but was disarmed at the end of the Second World War. Since then, the semaphore has been abandoned, tagged, partly collapsed and dangerous. Today, rehabilitation and safety work is underway, financed by the Parc national des Calanques and the Conseil départemental. This is the first stage in a transformation which, in the long term, should lead to the opening of a public information center, which the Park does not currently have.
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