Hook Lighthouse
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The Hook Lighthouse is a building situated on Hook Head at the tip of the Hook Peninsula in County Wexford, in Ireland. It is one of the oldest lighthouses in the world and the second oldest operating
Hook Head Lighthouse, which was built approximately 800 years ago.
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Tower of Hercules
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The Tower of Hercules is the oldest known extant Roman lighthouse. Built in the 1st century, the tower is located on a peninsula about 2.4 km from the centre of A Coruña, Galicia, in northwestern Spai
View from the south-east in 2023.
Cornerstone with name of the ancient Roman architect
Plan and elevation, from Joseph Cornide, Investigaciones sobre la fundación y fábrica de la torre llamada de Hércules, 1792
Breogán and the Tower of Hercules