The Lighthouse of Alexandroupolis

The Lighthouse of Alexandroupolis is the registered trademark, the naval image of the city, which while it was first inhabited, in the mid-19th century, it turned into exactly that; a maritime metropolis with a today's port, at the route of the ships that entered the Bosporus or the Mediterranean. The creation of a lighthouse became deemed essential and it started out round 1850, by means of the French Company of Ottoman Lighthouses.

The lighthouse of Alexandroupolis changed into inaugurated on 1 June 1880 and considering then it operates with out interruption. It has a height of 18 meters and if someone desires to reach the lantern room, on the pinnacle, he desires to climb the 98 stairs with the six landings, as many as the windows that light up its indoors. It is positioned west of the port and it turned into constructed on a cylindrical pedestal – its overall height from the surface of the sea is 27 meters, reality that allows the light beam of the Lighthouse of Alexandroupolis to be visible from a distance of 24 nautical miles about forty four kilometers.

It initially operated with acetylene after which with oil lamps. In 1974, the lighthouse of Alexandroupolis turned into linked and commenced to operate with power, even as in 2002 it became geared up with electric device of the modern era. Around the lamp, on the top of the lighthouse of Alexandroupolis, a concave reflect rotates sending the light to the prisms organized around – a method that was primarily based at the counterweights and pulleys that the lighthouse keeper sorted for decades.