Calais Lighthouse

Calais Lighthouse positioned in Calais in Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The Lighthouse is located within the residential streets close to the Port of Calais and is an enormous landmark in addition to a navigational resource to ships and ferries the use of the Straits of Dover. There became a beacon on the summit of the watchtower from 1818. King Louis-Philippe in his plans to enhance French ports determined the development of a first-class lighthouse in Calais. This lighthouse started running in 1848 and turned into electrified in 1883. After escaping the destruction of the Second World War it changed into computerized in 1987.

The Calais lighthouse is now classified as a Monument historique on account that 19/05/2011 in France. The lighthouse is 53m high, its tower is octagonal outdoor and spherical internal with partitions 1,90m at the base and 1,50m at the summit. The foundations descend 7,40m below the cellars. The staircase has 271 steps main as much as the lantern. The significant mild of the lighthouse is permanent and the lantern, whose panels close off the mild, turns across the light, giving four flashes of 2/10th of a second every 15 seconds