the lighthouse of Cape Trafalgar is a monumental lighthouse of approximately 34 meters high and white frustoconical tower, raised in 1860 very close to the beacon tower of the same name.1 It is located in the municipality of Barbate (Cádiz) spain.
In 1857 Eduardo Saavedra y Moragas was commissioned to make this lighthouse, Project of which original documentation is preserved
In 1929 the tower was reformed in its factory, especially the outer cladding, at once that the optical apparatus was renewed and the housing of the lighthouse keepers was improved. I know It is located in an environment very given to tourism and hiking despite the existing access issues.
Wind, the dunes and a past buried under the the bottom of the sea surrounds thelight of trafalgarof a magical atmosphere. Sit and contemplate this historic bastion, located in the area of Caños de Meca(Barbate), It is quite a delight when the sun starts to get.
From afar, as if it were an oasis in the middle of the desert, the imposing silhouette of 34 meters high from lighthouse; blanca, unpolluted before the immensity. It is located in an environment bathed in golden dunes, great beaches and vegetation that sometimes reaches the sand.
A wooden walkway runs along the coast, crossing the cliffs, from where you can appreciate the different shades of blue that it acquires the sea due to currents.
Yes do you likewill do and the story, Thecape of trafalgar it is your destiny. Here stands a white tower in a conical shape that overlooks the most emblematic waters of the coast of Cádiz, those in which one of the great combats of naval history took place, theBattle of Trafalgar (1805), on the that Admiral Nelson defeated the Franco-Spanish fleet.
Heir straight from the tower of surveillancethat there by the9th century raised the Arabs and with whose remains even today shares leadership, the Trafalgar Lighthouse towers over thetombolo trafalgar, Andalusian geological heritage. His 'look' projected onto some waters in which, From May, the great banks of bluefin tunas come to their reunion with the ancient almadrabas of Cádiz.
