Headlight of Agay

The Headlight of Agay or headlight of Baumette built on the point of Baumettes, is on the commune of Saint-Raphaël in the Var.

It is a square tower with a main building out of stone of size of the careers of Touris (Valetta) and bricks of the deposits of Holy-Maxime or factory of Saint-Henri to Marseilles. A first project conceived in 1881 envisaged the construction of a cylindrical tower on the existing masonry of the battery of Baumette.

It undergoes a restoration in 1968.

The headlight is automated and telecontrolled by the station of Porquerolles.

Commemorative stele

A stele was affixed there to remember it Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Indeed, on July 31st, 1944, joining its unit in Corsica, it would have flown over the residence of his brother, the Count d' Agay, located in the vicinity. The headlight would be then the last building which the pilot would have seen before disappearing with the orders from his plane.

Internal bonds

List of the headlights of France

External bonds

headlight of Agay (photographs)
Headlight of Agay (Mérimée Base - inheritance)

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