At the beginning of the ancient road to Contovello and Prosecco, which leads to the Karst, rises up a well-known monument: the Victory lighthouse, opened in 1927 and erected in memory of those died in the sea on the Gretta hill. The white tower made of stone from Vrsar, is crowned by a scaly dome over lantern and on which hovers a bronze statue of Winged Victory. The basement, on which looms the Sailor stone made was erected on the former Kressich fort that was built in 1854 in support of the defense system in this area. In the bottom of the base is the anchor of the Audace, the destroyer vessel from which the first Italian soldiers landed in November 1918. The total height of nearly 70 meters, the light radiating from a height of about 115 meters above sea level has two white bundles interspersed by two shadow interval of different duration; the range of the light is about 36 miles in average atmospheric transparency
