The document provides descriptions of 18 lighthouses along the coast of Galicia, Spain. It includes information on when each lighthouse was built, its architectural features like shape, height and materials, and technical details like light color and visibility range. The lighthouses described are located at points, capes and islands along Galicia's coastline and some date back to the mid-19th century, with the oldest being the Tower of Hercules built by the Romans. Photos and links are provided for each lighthouse.

1. SOME LIGHTHOUSES OF
GALICIA
BY 6th GRADERS
CEIP SAN TOMÉ

2. Decription :
It was built in 1920
by Francisco Goínez.
The cylindrical tower
is 11 meters
high (36 feet ). It’s
covered with white
tiles.
Light color:white.
Range:10 nautical
miles-
Roncudo Point Lighthouse
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listening
By : Aaron
Fernandez
Martinez
Images
from:http://guias.masm
ar.net/Faros/Galicia/D-
1730-Faro-de-Punta-
Roncudo

3. Insua point lighthouse
It was built in 1921,the
Project was directed by
Salvador Lopez Miño.
The one floor building,has an
hexagon shaped stone tower
facing the sea.From its to the
top of the lantern, it
measures 14 meters high (46
feet). Its dome is made of
aluminum.
Light colors: white and red.
Range: 14 nautical miles..
.
By Aiton Aragunde
www.wikirutas.es
www.taringa.net
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4. A Barca Point
Lighthouse.
Image 1: http://numero-efe.blogspot.com.es/2013/11/faro-de-punta-de-la-barca-muxia_16.html
Image 2 : http://www.cooperativasdegalicia.com/mapa/index.php?&idioma=c
Images from :
BY: INÉS COSTA 6th A
It was built in 1928 under the direction of the
engineer Rafael Cerda .
The tower has a frustum of a cone
shape with two levels that are separated
by a terrace. It was constructed with
concrete, covered with gray cement.
Height: 11 meters (36 feet)
Light color: white
Range: 6 nautical miles
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5. A Guía Lighthouse
Images from:( http://ana-geo.blogspot.com.es/2011/01/faros-de-la-costa-gallega-las-
ras.htmlttp).(http://es.weather-forecast.com/locations/Faro)
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By : Sara Reboeiras
Hermida 6th B
It was built in 1.844 under
the direction of the engineer
Juan Faro.
The tower has an hexagon
like platform that narrows
down from the shank to its
frame. It´s there that it also
has a small balcony and an
octagon shaped lantern. The
tower is made of stone and
it´s embedded to a small
building.
Height : 21 meters (68.8 feet)
Light color : white
Range : 15 nautical miles

6. Cape Ortegal Lighthouse
It was built in 1984
under the direction of
the engineer Jaime
Arrandiaga.
The lighthouse has a
cylindrical shaped with
a diameter of 3 meters
(9.8 feet) and a height
of 12.70 meters (45.6
feet).It’s painted with
broad white and red
stipes.
Light color: white
Range: 18 nautical
miles
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IMAGES FROM:
http://www.edu.aytolacoruna.es/ga/recursos/monograficos/galicia_en_
fotos/recunchos_de_galicia/faros_de_galicia
Noa Otero Rial 6th A

7. Cape Vilán Lighthouse
Images from:
www.galiciaturismorural.es and
www.turismocostadamorte.com
By:Elia Pontanilla 6ºB
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Its construction began in 1.854 under the
direction of Alejandro de Olavarría, on
slightly wrong location.
It was finalized at the right place in 1.896
by the engineers Francisco Lizárraga and
Adolfo Pequeño. The current lighthouse is
an impressive hexagon shaped granite
stone tower, crowned with a glass lantern.
It´s Spain´s oldest electric lighthouse.
Height: 25 meters (82 feet)
Light color: white
Range: 28 nautical miles

8. Cape Corrubedo Lighthouse
It was built in 1854 under the
leadership of the engineer
Celedonio de Uribe. The
lighthouse building has a
semicircular shape with ashlar
stone tower at its center. The
tower is 9.60 meters high (31.5
feet). The sea around this
lighthouse has been considered to
be one of the most dangerous
because of the sharp rocks
underneath the surface.
Light colors: white and red.
Range: 15 nautical miles.
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ew;Click here for listening
By Laura Suárez

9. Images from: augaviva.com
blogdemerchi.rodeiramar2a.com
•Cape Home Lighthouse.
By : Lidia Silva Chaves.
Description
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It was built in 1934.
The white cylindrical
tower is 17 meters high
(55.7 feet) with a base
diameter of 3.5 meters
(11.5 feet).
Light color: white
Range: 9 nautical miles

10. CAPE SILLEIRO LIGHTHOUSE
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IMAGES FROM:
1- edu.aytolacoruna.es
2- turismoenxebre.com
BY: CARLOS PORTAS LEMA 6th B
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2-
The project was first designed
by the engineer Joaquín
Bellido. Towards the end of
1923 a new project was drawn
by the engineer Mauro Seres
modeled on Cape Vilán and
Fisterra lighthouses.
The building has got two
floors with a tower on the
west side, the whole covered
with white glazed tiles, with
the exception of two wide, red
stripes at the center of the
tower.
Height: 30 meters (98, 4 feet)
Light color: white
Range: 24 nautical miles

11. Sálvora Island lighthouse
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http://hadebarcos.blogspot.co
m.es/2012/03/
http://www.losviajesdebrujilda.
com/2009/08/
By Andrés Liu Chen
6th B
It was built in 1853 and 1921
based on the designs by
Martínez Campos-Mauro
Serrer.
It has a Ushaped building with
and octagon shaped tower
that’s embedded on the
backside of the building.The
structure is covered with
glazed tile. The tower has a red
band on it.
Height: 16 meters (52.5 feet)
Light color: white
Range: 21 nautical miles

12. Sisargas Islands Lighthouse
It was built in 1853
under the direction of
the engineer Celedonio
de Uribe.
The rectangular shaped
building has a surface
that´s 15 x 20 meters (
49 x 65 )feet . On one of
its walls , there is a wide
ashlar tower .
Height : 11 meters (36
feet) .
Light color: white .
Range : 23 nautical miles
.
Marta Núñez Charlín 6 A
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http://guias.masmar.net/Faros/Galicia/D-1728-Faro-de-Islas-Sisargas
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/18162499

13. Cíes Island Lighthouse
It was built in 1853 under the leadership of
Alejandro de Olovarría.
It includes a house with an ashlar stone tower
that´s divided in two levels. The lower one is
cylindrical.
The cone shaped upper one is 10 meters high
(32.8 feet). The lighthouse is located 177
meters above sea level (580.7 feet).
Light color : white
Range : 22 nautical miles
http://esphoto980x880.mnstatic.com/ruta-del-monte-faro-_-
islas-cies_3832981.jpg
Images from :
http://guias.masmar.net/var/masmar/storage/images/media/images/cies_vista102/398
475
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By Alex Ruel

14. Tower of Hercules
It was build by the Romans
and later restored by the
architect Eustaquio Giannini
in 1791. Its platform has got
a diameter of 37 meters (121
feet). The tower is divided in
three sections. Each wall of
the tower has got two rows
of windows ,which are
separated by a stripe of rock
that spirals upward from its
base . It’s the world’s oldest
lighthouse that still in use.
Height: 49 meters (160 feet)
Light color: white
Range: 23 nautical miles
By Cristina
Feijoo 6ºA
http://www.turismocoruna.com/web/corTurServer.php?idSecweb=227&idFicha=566&id_secPadre=217&idCategoria=288&scrollear_2
http://www.edu.aytolacoruna.es/ga/recursos/monograficos/galicia_en_fotos/recunchos_de_galicia/faros_de_galicia
Imáges from
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listening

15. Cape Fisterra Lighthouse
It was built in 1853. The
project was assigned to the
engineer Félix Uhagón. It was
built 126 meters (413 feet)
above sea level and It’s lantern
is 17 meters (55.7 feet) higher
than that.
It includes a white house with
an octagon shaped tower made
of ashlar stones.
Light color: white
Range: 23 nautical miles
http://www.margalaica.net/que-
ver/faro-de-finisterre
http://www.margalaica.ne
t/que-ver/faro-de-
finisterre
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16. Click here for listening
Images
from:http://guias.masmar.net/Faros/Galicia/(offset)/110
By Luis Rey Abollo 6th B
It was built in 1918 by the
enginiers Rafael de la
Cerda y Miguel J.
Abreu.The oval shaped
tower is 7 meters high(23
feet)
Light color:Red
Rage:10 nautical miles

17. Images
from:http://www.vivirgaliciaturismo.com/ and
http://www.invied.mde.es/
By Miguel Pombo Mouriño 6th B
Estaca de Bares
lighthouse
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It was built in the year 1850, this Project was
assigned to the engineer Felix Uhagón.
It has a round ashlar stone tower, with a
transparent dome, embedded on the backside of
two story rectangular building.
Estaca de Bares is the northern most point in the
Iberian Peninsula.
Height : 10 meters (32.8 feet)
Light color: white
Range: 25 nautical miles.

18. It was built in 1934.
The cylindrical tower is made of ashlar stones and has a frustum
of a cone shape. It includes an external spiral stairway.
Height: 17 meters (55.7 feet)
Light color: white
Range:11 nautical miles
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Image 2 link:https://jarabano.wordpress.com/faros-de-galicia/
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19. FROUXEIRA POINT LIGHTHOUSE
.
By : Luis Andrei Esmoris Sineiro
6thA
This lighthouse is in
Valdoviño Ferrol
Galicia . The
lighthouse was built
in 1992 but it began
operating two years
later . Frouxeira point
lighthouse is 30
metres tall and it´s
square. It is an
attraction for the
tourists.
.
.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pedritop/5449
246826/
Images from:
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listening

20. By Andrea Barreiro 6th A
images from:http://www.lagranescapada.com/ruta-de-los-faros-
de-la-costa-da-morte/ http://aquemarropa.es/images/mapa-faros-
galicia.png
The first lighthouse was built
in 1898 under the direction of
engineer Adolfo Pequeño.
It was a square building,14
meters long(46 feet),with a
roughly 8 meters high (26 feet)
tower at the center. In 1981 a
second with colored cylindrical
tower was construted. It has a
diameter of 3 meters(9.8feet)
and is 14 meters ( 46 feet)
high. Cape Touriñan marks the
most western point of Galicia
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21. Its construction dates from 1861 with an
iron structure.
In 1918 was demolished the iron tower and
took the metal to coat with ashlar blocks
with profile truncated and green dome.
Tower height: 6 metres (19.68 feet)
Light color: green.
Range: 5 nautical miles
http://farosdeg
alicia.wordpres
s.com/2012/01
/15/faro-del-
castillo-de-san-
anton-a-
coruna/
https://www.google.co
m/maps/d/viewer?oe=
UTF8&t=m&ie=UTF8&
msa=0&mid=zf8EuU8e
mmr4.k4H-yxkhYRrc
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22. Sanxenxo Harbour
Lighthouse
 It was opened in 2005 by
king Juan Carlos I .
 The lighthouse is located at
the end of the breakwater. It
was constructed in concrete
, with cylindrical shape and
painted with red and white
stripes . At the top has a
balcony with interior access
.
 Height : 7 meters ( 22 , 96
feet )
 Light color : red
 Range 5 nautical miles
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 Images from : http://www.turgalicia.es?
 ://www.todopueblos.com/bordons-pontevedra
By : Marta Suárez Huri 6thB

23. If was built in 1926
by the engineer
Ramiro Pascual.
It’s a white colored
ashlar stone tower.
Height: 10 meters
(32.8 feet)
Light color: white.
Range: 10 nautical
miles
Images from:
http://guias.masmar.net/Faros/Galicia/D-1886-Faro-de-Punta-Canabal.-Islas-
C%C3%ADes
By Alba Romero Fernández 6thB
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24. MUSEO DO MAR DE GALICIA
LIGHTHOUSE
It´s a cylindrical metal tube
mounted on an ashlar stone
platform. It has a glass
dome which is , in reality
,just a gazebo, in a
decorative lighthouse. It
was inaugurated in 2002
inside the“Museo do Mar de
Galicia “(Galicia
sea Museum)complex,
designed by the architects
Aldo Rossi and the Galician
César Portela.
Images from: http://www.guiasgalicia.com
http://www.asmaccenter.com/educacion/
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By: Juan Prado
Pomares 6th B

25. The tower has a frustum of a
cone shape in white ,at the top it
has a green terrace.
Height : 5 meters (16.4 feet ).
Light color : white and green.
Range : 8 nautical miles.
Couso Point
Lighthouse
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By : Andrea Somoza 6thB
Images from: https://www.google.es/search?q=fotos+del+faro+de+punta+couso

26. Cape Prior Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Images from: http://wikimapia.org/2348681/Cape-Prior-Lighthouse
BY: Sofia Espiñeira Martínez Click here for listening
It was built in 18564 by the
engineer Celedonio de Uribe.
It consists of a house and an
hexagonal shaped ashlar
tower.
Height: 7 meters (23 feet)
Light color: white
Range : 22 nautical miles

27. Ons Insua Point Lighthouse
Images from:
https://es.images.search.yahoo.c
om/images/view
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It was built in
1928, under the
direction of the
engineer
Francisco
Godínez.The
tower is a replica
of the O
Roncudo
lighthouse. It has
cylinder shape
and is covered
with white glazed
tiles.
Height: 11
meters (36 feet)
Light color: white
Cristina Prado 6th
A