The Senetosa lighthouse was built behind the Corsican lighting schedule. It was designed by engineer Zevaco. Work began in 1889 and the lighthouse was lit on May 15, 1892 with a white light flashing every 5 seconds. Originally fueled by mineral oil, this fire switched fuel in 1906 to petroleum vapor. The lighthouse was later electrified and automated in 1988. It no longer has a keeper as of spring 2008. At the end of 2011, the Senetosa lighthouse was the first lighthouse to pass under the responsibility of the Conservatoire du littoral, as part of the transfer of the management of some sixty state lighthouses to the conservatory decided in 2011.
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Torra di Senetosa
The tower is located at an altitude of 129 m on the Capu di Senetosa promontory. The tower was built in 1610. It was one of a series of coastal defenses built by the Republic of Genoa between 1530 and 1620 to stem attacks by Barbary pirates. In 1992, the tower was listed as an official historical monument of France. Since 1979, the tower has been owned and maintained by the French government agency, the Conservatoire du littoral. The agency plans to purchase of the promontory and in 2011 had acquired .
Fortin de Tizzano
This ruined fort defended the entrance to Cala di Tizzano, a small sheltered port for local fishermen. This small stronghold was deployed in the second half of the 18th century from a 16th century Genoese tower. It is listed as a historical monument.
The alignments are organized into seven groups, six oriented north-south and one east-west. All the menhirs are carved in the shape of a human silhouette (although none have clear minds), most being roughly rough-hewn. The three statue-stelae have swords engraved and two have daggers, other presumed engravings could be anatomical attributes. Funeral coffers have also been discovered. Only one is still preserved, partially inviolate, it contained furniture from the early Bronze Age which is now in the museum of Sartène. Aligned domes are visible on one of its uprights. Some authors see in them stellar representations or a motif linked to the cult of water, these domes perhaps allow rainwater to be collected with magical virtues. The menhirs were erected between 1900 and 1000 BC. The site was first listed in 1889 by Étienne Michon, who counted sixty to seventy menhirs there, divided into two groups. Giraux discovered another dozen in 1914. Roger Grosjean carried out various excavation campaigns from 1964 to 1968 and brought the number of discovered monoliths and three stele-statues to 255, which led him to qualify the site as a "laboratory of Corsican megalithism". The site is classified as a historic monument by order of 23 October 1974.
The dolmen is made up of six lateral orthostats, three of which come from the same fissured slab. All slabs have been regularised. The room measures . The slab fragments visible in front of the entrance could correspond to the closing slab. It has been classified as a historic monument since 1889.
Dated to the Bronze Age between 1500 and 1000 BC. The two orders of stones, dated BC, consist of more than 20 standing menhirs or statue menhirs. Its front faces east. Long hidden under an ancient wall, the stones were excavated by Roger Grosjean in 1964. The two statues in the northern part of the stone row, named by Grosjean as "Cauria II" (2.78 m high) and "Cauria IV" (2.91 m high) from the nearby village of Cauria, are among the largest in Corsica. They are the only menhir statues with indicated arms and hands. A "dagger sword" is recognized as an attribute, which is carried in a hook on the chest with a shoulder strap. A kind of loincloth is attached to the sword, forming a curved line pattern on the back of the menhir. The vertical incisions on the back are interpreted as the back or straps of the sword hook. Of interest are the two indentations (7 cm in diameter and 3 cm deep) on the sides of the head above the forehead. According to Grosjean, they were used to attach horns, so it's a bucranion. Traces of red paint on Cauria II and IV indicate, among other things, that these and other menhir statues were painted with red ochre. The two statues have been compared with representations of the Sea Peoples of Egypt in terms of clothing and armament and taken as an indication that the Shardana came from Sardinia, as the "Torre people" culture depicted on Cauria II and IV shows parallels with that of Sardinia at the same time.
The 46 menhirs of the double north-south row and of the adjacent semicircle have been raised and stand in a small holm oak wood at the foot of the Cauria rocks. The row of stones dates from Megalithic II or the Early Bronze Age (3000-1000 BC). Most of the menhirs are less than 1 m high.