Phare de Port-la-Nouvelle, Mediterranean lighthouse in Port-la-Nouvelle, France

The Port-la-Nouvelle lighthouse is an 18-metre cylindrical jetty light, painted in wide alternating red and white bands with small square windows. White letters painted vertically on the red bands read "XI", "G" and "ER". The tower rises from a white cylindrical base with a red-framed door beside a staircase with a blue metal railing, above a plain grey concrete cylinder.

The lighthouse was decommissioned by the Armistice Commission in 1942, its lens was removed in November, and its turret was dynamited in 1944 during the Second World War. It was later rebuilt as a jetty light: an 18-metre cylindrical tower showing a white flashing light.

The tower carries the letters "XI", "G" and "ER" painted vertically down its red bands, a marking a visitor can read on the seaward face. The light was rebuilt after 1944 as a jetty light, so the structure standing today is a post-war replacement rather than the 19th-century tower.

The rebuilt jetty light stands at the end of the breakwater at Port-la-Nouvelle, reached by following the harbour quays from the town centre. The tower is not open for climbing; visitors see it from the jetty and the surrounding quays. Its white flashing light marks the harbour entrance for boats.

The tower is a rebuilt jetty light: after the Armistice Commission took the original out of service in 1942, its lens was dismantled that November and the turret dynamited in 1944. The present 18 m cylinder shows the letters "XI", "G" and "ER" painted vertically down its red bands.