 After 1880, Italians from Friuli and Veneto settled in Greci, Cataloi and Măcin in Northern Dobruja.Most of them worked in the granite quarries in the Măcin Mountains, some became farmers and others worked in road building.Soaring , a lighthouse called "Farul Genovez" - the Genoese Lighthouse - was built in 1860 by the "Danubius and Black Sea Company" to honor Genoese merchants who established a flourishing sea trade community in Constanța in the 13th century.