Lighthouse of the Week, January 21-27, 2018: Punta del Hidalgo, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

I've featured a few lighthouses from Spain thus far in the Lighthouse of the Week series.

But I've never seen one quite like this one.

This is the Punta del Hidalgo lighthouse, on the Canary Island of Tenerife, which happens to be part of the country of Spain.

Here's the whole island, and you should see the location of the lighthouse, on Google Maps.

As for the lighthouse itself ...

It is most certainly, as you will see, non-traditional.  Here is a description of it, the basics, from the Lighthouse Directory Canary Islands page:

"1991. Active; focal plane 52 m (171 ft); three white flashes every 16 s. 50 m (164 ft) white masonry tower, vertical at the front but stepped irregularly in the rear, giving the tower a pyramidal form; the light is displayed from a short post at the peak of the tower."

If that intrigues you, here are pictures of it.  It's quite a remarkable structure.  I've had a few unique lighthouses in this blog, and this is one of the uniquest.