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Most of the photos from this area are by Capt. Of Lights - Italy Photos by various photographers posted by Alexander Trabas. NGA List numbers are from Publication 113.

Numbers are from volume E of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Lighthouse properties are naval reservations, generallyĪre from the Italian Navy's light list, Elenco Fari. In Italian isola is an island, isolotto is an islet, secca is a shoal, cabo is a cape, punta is a point of land, baia is a bay, stretto is a strait, fiume is a river, and porto is a harbor.Īids to navigation in Italy are operated and maintainedīy the Italian Navy's Servizio dei Fari e del Segnalamento Marittimo (Lighthouse and Maritime Signal Service).

This name is usually reserved for the larger coastal lights smaller beaconsĪre called fanali.

The Italian word for a lighthouse is faro, plural fari. (1803-1815) when the Kingdom of Naples merged with Sicily to form the Kingdom of Prior to the unification of Italy in 1861 all of Puglia was part of the Kingdom of Naples until the end of the Napoleonic Wars Port of the region, but there are many other ports. This portion of Puglia faces northeast on the Adriatic Sea. Of Puglia (commonly known in English as Apulia), including the provinces of Foggia and Barletta-Andria-Trani and the Metropolitan City of Bari.

This page includes the lighthouses of the northern part of the Italian region Italy is divided into 20 regions ( regioni), many of them well known outside the country in their own right, and the regions are subdivided into provinces. Guarding this coast are many lighthouses the Directory lists more than 400. With this geography Italy has a very long coastline reckoned by geographers at about 7600 km (4722 mi). Most of Italy (officially the Italian Republic, Repubblica Italiana in Italian) occupies a long peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea, with the Adriatic and Ionian Seas on the east and the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas to the west the country also includes the Mediterranean's two largest islands, Sicily and Sardinia, and many smaller islands. Lighthouses of Italy: Northern Puglia Lighthouses of Italy: Northern Puglia (Apulia)