Galicia's lighthouses
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1. Ribadeo
The agreement of the Lighthouse Commission determined to build a lighthouse in the vicinity of Ribadeo, choosing the island as Pancha so that the...
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2. San Cibrao
The need for a lighthouse was a direct consequence of the rise of one of the most important Galician industries of the s. XIX, the ceramic...
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3. Roncadoira
The need to improve the conditions of recognition of the Ria de Viveiro requires the construction of the Roncadoira lighthouse. The difficult...
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4. Coelleira
After the 1950s, there was a concern to complete the lighting and beaconing of the Galician coastline, signaling all ports and estuaries that could...
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5. Estaca de Bares
Historically considered the tip of Estaca de Bares as the northernmost point of the Galician coast and with a relevant role for seamen as it...
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6. Ortegal
The tip of Ortegal is surrounded by a dangerous chain of boulders in zone of breakers. Already in the Middle Ages it is reflected in the marine and...
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7. Candieira
This lighthouse was lit at the beginning of the year 1954, although the antecedents and procedures for its construction go back to the first...
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8. Cedeira
In 1860 the engineer Celedonio de Uribe was commissioned to draft this fact because at that time it was considered that the port of Cedeira could...
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9. Frouxeira
Its avant-garde design is the result of a “Competition for ideas for the construction of lighthouses” convened by the General...
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10. Prior
This lighthouse is destined to mark the Artabro Arch in the north with the complement of another light of lower rank that is installed in Cape...
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11. Prioriño
As a port light, a range of fourth-order light was considered sufficient when it was placed in a cove and near the luminous reach of the Tower of...
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12. Castelo da Palma
In order to signal the access to the estuary and port of Ferrol and in order to mark a dangerous low called precisely under A Palma this project is...
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13. Mera
The definitive project of Mera lighthouses was carried out by Rafael de la Cerda. The result was two independent towers of octagonal plant that...
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14. Oza
To facilitate the entry of ships in the northern channel of the A Coruña estuary had used as a reference the light of the lighthouse of Prioriño...
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15. Castelo de San Antón
In the nineteenth century the need to install a light to help the entry of ships in the bay of Corunna signaling the very island where the Castle...
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16. Torre de Hércules
The rocky hill on which the Tower of Hercules sits is called Punta Eiras. It was built in the middle of the first century BC between the reigns of...
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17. Sisargas
The location of the lighthouse is motivated by the need to complete the lighting of the coast and the danger of the islands themselves by confusing...
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18. Punta Nariga
The architectural solution that Cesar Portela gave to the Punta Nariga lighthouse earned him the Dragados Prize and Architecture Constructions in...
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19. Roncudo
Given the danger of the coastal stretch between Roncudo and Camelle confirmed by the numerous shipwrecks that have occurred over the years,...
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20. Laxe
Given the danger of the sandbanks in the rocks called “Forcado de Adentro”, “Forcado de fóra” and “Lavaderas”...
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21. Vilán
The interest of seafarers since the Middle Ages by this strategic point of the coast, in addition to the danger confirmed by the shipwreck numbers,...
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22. Muxía
Conceived to illuminate the estuary of Camariñas forming part of a system with three other lights: two located in luminous buoys and one on land,...
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23. Touriñán
One of the last Galician lighthouses built in the twentieth century with a project commissioned in 1833 to the engineer Adolfo Pequeño.
The...
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24. Fisterra
With the revival of trade routes and trade in the Middle Ages, Finisterre Cape regained its crucial role as a reference for navigators, being one...
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25. Cee
When the winds raged and they did not allow to go up Finisterre Cape, the beach of Langosteira and the estuary of Cee and Corcubión were chosen...
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26. Lobeiras
The dangerous islets and lowlands integrated by Lobeira Grande and Pequeña and by the two Carrumeiros motivate the construction project of the...
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27. Punta Insua
The first antecedent of this lighthouse is found in 1904 but it will be in 1909 when the engineer Salvador López Miño carried out the definitive...
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28. Rebordiño
Engineer Salvador López Miño is in charge of developing the project of this sixth order lighthouse with a range of 6 miles that runs between 1906...
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29. Louro
Located in Punta do Queixal in Monte Louro is a fifth order lighthouse that reached 10 miles depending on weather conditions.
The proximity to other...
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30. Corrubedo
The rocky Corrubedo Cape stands out for its dangerousness due to the distance of the coast from its numerous lows.
It was the first project of the...
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31. Sálvora
The protagonism of the lighthouses of the islands of the province of Pontevedra lies in the extensive and trimmed of its coastline so its function...
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32. Rúa
The protagonism of the lighthouses of the islands of the province of Pontevedra lies in the extensive and trimmed of its coastline so its function...
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33. Arousa
The protagonism of the lighthouses of the islands of the province of Pontevedra lies in the extensive and trimmed of its coastline so its function...
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34. Ons
With the project of this lighthouse would be signalized the entrance to the estuary of Pontevedra and Marín.
A first project was carried out between...
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35. Cíes
The estuary and port of Vigo needed this new light to act as a landing light for ships coming from America or transit to Europe.
The first...
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36. Guía
In 1847, on the initiative of the merchants of Vigo linked to the expanding maritime lines of steam and the presence of the Lazareto of the San...
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37. Silleiro
The characteristic feature of this lighthouse would be to help, along with the Cíes, to provide a safer entry from the south of the Vigo estuary to...