Faro de Cabo Trafalgar

Today I walked to the Faro de Cabo Trafalgar. Well, I not completely walked along the beach from home to the lighthouse, but drove part of it with the scooter and walked part of it.

If you like, you could walk. It would take round about 4 hours and is part of the sendero europeo arco atlantico.

The Cape Trafalgar Lighthouse is a lighthouse built in 1860 very close to the beacon tower of the same name. It is located in the southeast of Conil.

In 1857 Eduardo Saavedra y Moragas was commissioned to build this lighthouse.

The most striking element of the 34-meter-high lighthouse was the shaft, a 29.5-meter-long, trochoconical body built with exposed ashlars. Above it, another cylindrical body, this time 185 centimeters high, held the lantern. This was the lighthouse's original appearance until the installation of a new light fixture in 1926 necessitated its modification.

Due to the increased weight of the machinery, the tower had to be reinforced, as its already precarious stability was at risk due to wind storms. The work was carried out in 1929. Since then, it has more or less taken shape in the image it presents today.

In 2015, the concession of the lighthouse to a company to install a luxury hotel inside was announced, but such a project was finally rejected in 2018. Fortunately!!!Read more