Historic lighthouse at Europa Point, Gibraltar, overlooking the Mediterranean entrance.
Europa Point Lighthouse, also called the Trinity Lighthouse at Europa Point, is a lighthouse on the southeastern tip of Gibraltar, at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. Completed and first lit in 1841, its cylindrical tower is 20 metres high and stands 49 metres above the high-water mark.
Europa Point Lighthouse, also known as the Trinity Lighthouse at Europa Point, Victoria Tower and La Farola in Llanito, is a lighthouse at Europa Point on the southeastern tip of Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula. It stands at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea and is used by ships navigating the Strait of Gibraltar and the Bay of Gibraltar. Construction of the lighthouse first began in 1838. The foundation stone was laid on 26 April 1838 by Sir Alexander George Woodford, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar, in a ceremony conducted with military and masonic honours and witnessed by about 10,000 people. Europa Lighthouse was inaugurated on 1 August 1841, with the first lighting attended by more than 2,000 people. Originally it displayed a fixed light from an oil lamp with one wick, intensified by a large first-order optic. The lighthouse underwent upgrades in 1864, 1875, 1894 and 1905, when a three–incandescent mantle burner was added. After further twentieth‑century modernisation, the station was fully automated in 1994 and later converted to LED operation in 2016. The cylindrical brick tower is painted white with a wide red horizontal band, is 20 metres tall, and stands 49 metres above the high‑water mark.
