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GPS 38.695612396270285, -9.44647538095003

Farol da Guia is a Portuguese lighthouse located on Cabo da Guia, about 2 km west of the center of Cascais. It is a white octagonal masonry tower 28 meters high. It also has a Santa Marta - Guia beacon, with red light, with a range of 19 nautical miles.

Due to its privileged position in Cascais, entrance to the port of Lisbon, the region has always been important for navigation. For this reason, since 1523, this point on the Portuguese coast has been illuminated by the then chapel of N. Sr.ª da Guia, built on land donated by D. Luiz de Castro, lord of Cascais and, where in 1537, the brotherhood local, a tower was built where a set of four or five oil lights was lit, which could be seen from a great distance to help sailors. This light was maintained by the brotherhood, which provided oil and glass for the lantern, keeping it lit for about eight months of the year.

With the 1755 earthquake, the tower was badly damaged, forcing major reconstruction works and the replacement of equipment. Meanwhile, in order to illuminate various parts of the Portuguese coast that were still in the dark, it was organized by the Marquês de Pombal and assigned to the Board of Commerce, the Lighthouse Service in the charter of February 1, 1758, which ordered the construction of six lighthouses on our coast, the Guia Lighthouse one of these lighthouses.

Therefore, the currently existing Guia Lighthouse, stems from the reconstruction of the hermitage of N. Sr.ª da Guia, and was the second of the Lighthouse Service, having been established in 1761, emitting a fixed white light, from 16 lamps of Argand, reaching 13 miles in good visibility conditions, in a sector of 240º. Its eight-sided tower, 23 meters high and made up of thick masonry walls with cornerstones and stonework cymbals, was lined with white tiles in the mid-19th century and renovated in April 2003.

Currently, the lighthouse is not manned, and its residences are used by lighthouse keepers who provide services in the Lighthouse Directorate. The telecontrol system was replaced by a monitoring one, which transmits an SMS message to the lighthouse keeper's mobile phone calling the Headlights Central, whenever there is a failure.

LATITUDE: 38º 41',81 N

LONGITUDE: 09º 26', 70 W

HEIGHT: 28 m

ALTITUDE: 58 m

RANGE: 19 MI (35Km)

FEATURE: ISO WR 2s

Versão portuguesa aqui.

GPS 38.695612396270285, -9.44647538095003

Farol da Guia is a Portuguese lighthouse located on Cabo da Guia, about 2 km west of the center of Cascais. It is a white octagonal masonry tower 28 meters high. It also has a Santa Marta - Guia beacon, with red light, with a range of 19 nautical miles.

Due to its privileged position in Cascais, entrance to the port of Lisbon, the region has always been important for navigation. For this reason, since 1523, this point on the Portuguese coast has been illuminated by the then chapel of N. Sr.ª da Guia, built on land donated by D. Luiz de Castro, lord of Cascais and, where in 1537, the brotherhood local, a tower was built where a set of four or five oil lights was lit, which could be seen from a great distance to help sailors. This light was maintained by the brotherhood, which provided oil and glass for the lantern, keeping it lit for about eight months of the year.

With the 1755 earthquake, the tower was badly damaged, forcing major reconstruction works and the replacement of equipment. Meanwhile, in order to illuminate various parts of the Portuguese coast that were still in the dark, it was organized by the Marquês de Pombal and assigned to the Board of Commerce, the Lighthouse Service in the charter of February 1, 1758, which ordered the construction of six lighthouses on our coast, the Guia Lighthouse one of these lighthouses.

Therefore, the currently existing Guia Lighthouse, stems from the reconstruction of the hermitage of N. Sr.ª da Guia, and was the second of the Lighthouse Service, having been established in 1761, emitting a fixed white light, from 16 lamps of Argand, reaching 13 miles in good visibility conditions, in a sector of 240º. Its eight-sided tower, 23 meters high and made up of thick masonry walls with cornerstones and stonework cymbals, was lined with white tiles in the mid-19th century and renovated in April 2003.

Currently, the lighthouse is not manned, and its residences are used by lighthouse keepers who provide services in the Lighthouse Directorate. The telecontrol system was replaced by a monitoring one, which transmits an SMS message to the lighthouse keeper's mobile phone calling the Headlights Central, whenever there is a failure.

LATITUDE: 38º 41',81 N

LONGITUDE: 09º 26', 70 W

HEIGHT: 28 m

ALTITUDE: 58 m

RANGE: 19 MI (35Km)

FEATURE: ISO WR 2s