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 appears in the marine charts and medieval Portulans.
The project of the lighthouse is entrusted to Felix Uhagón who designs a tower of octagonal format that due to the location of the land, located to 93,35 meters on the sea, did not have to develop a great height. The 1 of September of 1850 after several tests begins to operate with a range of 20 miles.
The lighthouse of Bares became a model for other buildings projected on the Galician coast as is the case of Finisterre.
In 1964 it is electrified and in 1993 it is changed again the luminous equipment being monitored to be supervised from the Control Center of the port of Ferrol.
Curiosities, myths and legends
A point where the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Cantábrico Sea meet, there are abandoned military installations on the ground. One of them was a US Coast Guard base since the early 1960s.
French and British government stations operated in conjunction with the Estaca de Bares station for LORAN Coast Guard operations. The US Air Force began to control the base from 1978 to 1991. Today they are abandoned.
The LORAN -LOng RAnge Navigation- system is an electronic long range radio navigation system that determines the position based on the interval between the reception of the transmitted signal from three or more points. It was developed during World War II to aid the navigation of allied aviation and North Atlantic convoys.
