Seaside resort town and port. The Spanish Armada sailed from the adjacent Ferrol harbour, it was the scene of the English retreat from the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars.
The Tower of Hercules has served as a lighthouse and landmark at the entrance of La Coruña harbour in north-western Spain since the late 1st century A.D. when the Romans built the Farum Brigantium. It is built on a 57 metre high rock, rises a further 55 metres, of which 34 metres correspond to the Roman masonry and 21 meters to the restoration directed by architect Eustaquio Giannini in the 18th century. There is an inscription on a rock about the Roman architect and this now has a small building around it to protect it. Many legends from the Middle Ages to the 19th century surround the Tower of Hercules, which is unique as it is the only lighthouse of Greco-Roman antiquity to have retained a measure of structural integrity and functional continuity.
The site also features a sculpture park, the Monte dos Bicos rock carvings from the Iron Age and a Muslim cemetery.
The Tower of Hercules has served as a lighthouse and landmark at the entrance of La Coruña harbour in north-western Spain since the late 1st century A.D. when the Romans built the Farum Brigantium. It is built on a 57 metre high rock, rises a further 55 metres, of which 34 metres correspond to the Roman masonry and 21 meters to the restoration directed by architect Eustaquio Giannini in the 18th century. There is an inscription on a rock about the Roman architect and this now has a small building around it to protect it. Many legends from the Middle Ages to the 19th century surround the Tower of Hercules, which is unique as it is the only lighthouse of Greco-Roman antiquity to have retained a measure of structural integrity and functional continuity.
The site also features a sculpture park, the Monte dos Bicos rock carvings from the Iron Age and a Muslim cemetery.
The entire point is made accessible for the community with walking tracks, a sculpture park, some sporting fields, and this in addition to the
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