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Photo: Alessandro from Milan, Italy, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A former military building on a tiny island, later converted to a lighthouse. An interesting abandoned building worth taking a picture in, if you happen to go around.
The Scola Tower - or tower of St. John the Baptist - is a military building located just beyond the northeastern tip of Palmaria (island) in Porto Venere, in the Gulf of Poets in the province of La Spezia, Italy. It is part of, along with the Fort Cavour and Umberto I and the Batteria Semaforo, the defensive positions of Palmaria.
Consecrated in 1975.
The castle is the oldest military building in the city, whose first phase of construction is prior to the thirteenth century. The structure preserved and visible today is the work of the Genoese who also built several other fortifications in the Gulf to defend against Muslim raids. The development of the city's entire area of the gulf of La Spezia is therefore always been related to the military function of the area.