Chipiona Lighthouse

Chipiona Lighthouse, also referred to as Punta del Perro Light is an lively nineteenth-century lighthouse in Chipiona, within the province of Cadiz, Spain At a top of 205 feet, it's miles the 17th tallest "traditional lighthouse" within the international, as well as the tallest in Spain. It is positioned on Punta del Perro, a projection of land into the Atlantic Ocean within the metropolis of Chipiona, about 6 kilometres southwest of the Guadalquivir front, and serves as the landfall light for Seville.
A previous lighthouse was present at the same website from the Roman duration, and this former lighthouse gave Chipiona its call. This tremendous lighthouse was, in keeping with Strabo similar with the well-known Lighthouse of Alexandria. It turned into ordered to be built in 140BC by way of the Roman proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio in an attempt to eventually triumph over the problems of the Salmedina reef at the mouth of the then river Betis, now the Guadalquivir. Its Latin name Turris caepionis, is traditionally held to be the starting place of the call Chipiona.