Striped tower
White and black.
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The Olinda Lighthouse stands on Morro do Serapião in the Amaro Branco district: a 42-metre conical concrete tower braced by four side buttresses and painted in white and black horizontal bands. It opened on 7 September 1941 with the first lift ever installed in a Brazilian lighthouse, carrying one person at a time up to the lantern. It replaced an older light opened on 18 November 1872 on Olinda's small São Francisco fort, the second-oldest lighthouse in Pernambuco: a 12.5-metre wrought-iron tower that stayed in service, despite its poor state and the encroaching sea, until the 1940s, when the present tower was built at the top of the hill. Today it is a landmark on Olinda's skyline near the historic centre.
White and black.
Above the town.
Since 1872.
Morro do Serapião, Amaro Branco, Olinda
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