SOME LIGHTHOUSES OF GALICIA

BY 6th GRADERSCEIP SAN TOMÉ

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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By : Aaron Fernandez Martinez

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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..

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By Aiton Aragunde

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A Barca Point

Lighthouse.

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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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A Guía Lighthouse

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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 : whiteRange : 15 nautical miles

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: whiteRange: 18 nautical miles CLICK HERE FOR LISTENING.

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Cape Vilán Lighthouse

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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: whiteRange: 28 nautical miles

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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By Laura Suárez

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• Cape Home Lighthouse.

By : Lidia Silva Chaves.

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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

CAPE SILLEIRO LIGHTHOUSE

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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: whiteRange: 24 nautical miles

Sálvora Island lighthouse

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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: whiteRange: 21 nautical miles

Sisargas Islands LighthouseIt 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 .

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Cíes Island Lighthouse

It was built in 1853 under the leadership of Alejandro de Olovarría.

It includes a house with an ashlar stone towerthat´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 : whiteRange : 22 nautical miles

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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

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Cape Fisterra LighthouseIt 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

By :Santiago Colina Lòpez

6ºA

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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

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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: whiteRange: 25 nautical miles.

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

Tenlo Chico Point

Lighthouse

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By:Diego

6thA

FROUXEIRA POINT LIGHTHOUSE.

By : Luis Andrei Esmoris Sineiro6thA

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.

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Cape Touriñan Lighthouse

By Andrea Barreiro 6th A

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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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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

By:Ibai

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6thA

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Castle of San AntónLighthouse

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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 Click here for listening

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CANABAL POINT LIGHTHOUSE

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

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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.

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By: Juan Prado Pomares 6th B

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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Cape Prior LighthouseLighthouse

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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: whiteRange : 22 nautical miles

Ons Insua Point Lighthouse

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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: whiteRange: 20 nautical miles

Cristina Prado 6th A