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The Guia lighthouse () is an active Portuguese
The rebuilt Guia lighthouse was completed in 1761. It now emits a fixed white light, with a range of 19 nautical miles in good visibility, over an arc of 240 degrees. Its tower, which is 23 meters high, is made up of thick masonry walls. It was lined with white tiles in the mid-19th century and renovated in April 2003.
The Guia lighthouse was electrified in 1957. Together with other lighthouses near to Lisbon it was automated in 1982 and is not manned. A monitoring system transmits an SMS message whenever a fault occurs.
lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lens (optics), lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
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located at Cabo da Guia, about 2 km west of the centre of Cascais
Cascais () is a town and municipality in the Lisbon District of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera, Estoril Coast. The municipality has a total of 214,158 inhabitants in an area of 97.40 km2. Cascais is an important tourism in Port ...
. It is an octagonal tower in white masonry with a red lantern that has a range of 18 nautical miles.
History
As a result of its position on the estuary of theTagus River
The Tagus ( ; ; ) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula. The river rises in the Montes Universales between Cuenca and Teruel, in mid-eastern Spain, flows , generally westward, and empties into the Atlantic Ocean in Lisbon.
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, Cabo da Guia had always been important for navigation. From 1523, this point on the Portuguese coast was illuminated by the chapel of the Hermitage of Our Lady of Guia. In 1537 the brothers of the hermitage raised a tower where a group of four or five oil lights were lit. This light was maintained by the brotherhood, keeping it lit for about eight months of the year.
During the 1755 Lisbon earthquake
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, impacted Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula, and Northwest Africa on the morning of Saturday, 1 November, All Saints' Day, Feast of All Saints, at around 09:40 local time. In ...
the tower was badly damaged, requiring major reconstruction works and equipment replacement. To illuminate several points of the coastline the Marquis of Pombal
A marquess (; ) is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The German-language equivalent is Markgraf (margrave). A woman with the rank of a marquess or the wife (or widow) ...
ordered six lighthouses to be built, of which the Guia lighthouse was one.
The rebuilt Guia lighthouse was completed in 1761. It now emits a fixed white light, with a range of 19 nautical miles in good visibility, over an arc of 240 degrees. Its tower, which is 23 meters high, is made up of thick masonry walls. It was lined with white tiles in the mid-19th century and renovated in April 2003.
The Guia lighthouse was electrified in 1957. Together with other lighthouses near to Lisbon it was automated in 1982 and is not manned. A monitoring system transmits an SMS message whenever a fault occurs.
See also
*List of lighthouses in Portugal
This is an alphabetical list of lighthouses in Portugal and its autonomous regions.
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* Casa do Facho em Fão (Esposende, Apúlia e Fão)
* Farol de Azurara (Vila do Conde, Azurara)
* Farol de Esposende (Esposende, Esposende, Marinhas e G ...
* Directorate of Lighthouses, Portugal
The Directorate of Lighthouses in Portugal (''Direção de Faróis'') is responsible for managing the country's 47 lighthouses, as well as other marine navigation activities. It is headquartered in Paço de Arcos.
Lighthouses have played an impo ...
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* {{Authority control Lighthouses in Portugal Buildings and structures in Cascais