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The Tower of Hercules (Torre de Hércules), is an ancient Roman lighthouse located on a peninsula about 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) of the center of the city of A Coruña, Galicia, in present-day northwestern Spain. The lighthouse is almost 1900 years old, standing 185 feet (57 meters) high, overlooking the North Atlantic coast of Spain. It is the oldest active Roman lighthouse in the world. Through the millennia many mythical stories of its origin have been told. According to a myth that blends Celtic and Greco-Roman elements, the hero Hercules slew the giant tyrant Geryon after three days and three nights of continuous battle. Hercules then?in a Celtic gesture? buried the head of Geryon with his weapons and ordered that a city be built on the site. The city, Brigantia to the Romans, came to be called ?Crunya?. The lighthouse atop a skull and crossbones representing the buried head of Hercules? slain enemy appears in the coat-of-arms of A Coruña. (more here <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hercules">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hercules</a> ) |
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| Author | Arturo Nikolai |
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