The pictures of the most beautiful lighthouses in the world. Photo

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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