The lighthouse is a place where is born and after a moment, dying light and this is repeated again and again.
The lighthouse for the sailor — guiding star and a symbol of hope for a speedy return home.
Tasaciones community hundreds of years to withstand the onslaught of hurricanes and ferocious storms, and the light showing the ships the way along the coastline to the secure Parking lot.
Each lighthouse has a unique history. The most ancient of the existing stands on the coast of Spain, near the modern city of La Coruna. It was built by Romans around 100 BC and is called the Tower of Hercules. The altitude of the Patriarch — 41 m.
In addition to these lighthouses in the old days there were false, designed especially to lure vessels on the run aground or on reefs, and then to Rob. With the purpose of profit extraction with merchant ships, the peasants of many European coastal villages lit bonfires on the rocks or even allowed to swim near a dangerous shore the corpse of a horse attached to a top of the lantern. Confused sailors often, especially in inclement weather, came across these tweaks.
Today most lighthouses are computerized. The romantic figure of the caretaker, which in the rainy night, climbing the tower at the roaring of the sea, almost gone. Even the lighthouses are gradually giving way to modern navigation technologies.
And all the lighthouses are unique architectural and engineering features. We have selected the most spectacular.
The lighthouse at Cape Formentor, Majorca, Spain © Giovanni G
Lighthouse in Lysekil, Sweden ©Henrik Aleborg
Lighthouse in Brest, France ©Stefan Cruysberghs
The Lighthouse Lange-Nell’alpi, Ostend, Belgium ©Piet Flour
Lighthouse FARC-de-Petit-Mina, Brest, France ©Alexander Riek
Lighthouse in Victoria beach, CA, USA ©Dave Gaylord
The Hornby Lighthouse, Australia ©BkBook
Lighthouse in San Esteban de Pravia, Spain ©Saghani
The lighthouse at the Northern lights, Iceland ©Gunnar Gestur
Yakina lighthouse on the Oregon coast, USA ©haveseen
Frozen lighthouse SV. Joseph North pier, Michigan, USA ©Thomas Zakowski and lighthouse Marshall point, Maine, USA ©Luboslav Tiles
Lighthouse in Beagle channel, Argentina / Chile ©Skel Shizuko
Old Scituate lighthouse, Massachusetts, USA ©Francisco Marty
Lighthouse Molnes, Norway ©freeezzzz
The highest lighthouse Ireland Fastnet Rock ©Fergal O’callaghan
The St. Mary’s lighthouse, the island of Beyt, UK ©Steven Walden and the lighthouse Heceta head, USA ©Borrowed Light Images
Kermorvant Lighthouse, Brittany, France ©Nicolas Rottiers
Cast-iron lighthouse, Whiteford, UK ©Matthew Jones
The Dondra lighthouse at Cape Dondra, Sri Lanka, one of the highest in South-East Asia ©kuzina
Lighthouse in Sturge Bay, Wisconsin, USA ©Ratul Maiti
Lighthouse West Quoddy head ©Author: PHB.cz (Richard Semik) and the Tower of Hercules, La coruña, Spain©Anibal Trejo
The lighthouse of Alexandria ©Hans Wagemaker
Lighthouse of Andros island, Greece ©Mary Kay
Lighthouse in new Brighton, England ©DMC Photogallery
Lighthouse on lake Baikal, Russia ©Sergey Yakovlev
Lighthouse in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany ©Holger Schmitt
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