Lighthouse of the Week, July 15-21, 2018: Cape Sidero, Crete, Greece

This week we have the second of the three Cretan (spell that right) lighthouses that I selected two weeks ago.  I'm saving the most well-known for last.  This one is the Cape Sidero lighthouse. Don't get confused, because there is also a Sideros lighthouse located near Corfu, and now that I've mentioned it I'll probably have to visit there, too.

Here is a Web site about it, and some pertinent information I acquired from that site:

Built:  1880
Destroyed:  1941, during World War II
Rebuilt: 1945

Cape Sidero (Kavos Sidero) is located at the northeastern corner of Crete, 32km east of Sitia and 99km east of Agios Nikolaos, near the Naval Station of Kyriamadi. The surrounding area is characterized by a unique landscape of wild natural beauty.

At the tip of the Cape and very close to the church of Agios Isidoros (Saint Isidore), stands the imposing building of the lighthouse, 15m high, which still operates.

See where it is on Crete.

The Lighthouse Directory adds this info:

Active; focal plane 45 m (148 ft); white flash every 10 s. 15 m (49 ft) round cylindrical concrete tower with lantern and gallery, attached to a 1-story concrete keeper's house. The tower is unpainted white concrete; lantern painted white with a dark green dome.

I'm glad they both agree it's 15 meters tall.

This is apparently not a lighthouse that is visited often (it's way out on the point of the cape - zoom in on the map at the link to see what that means), so there are very few pictures of it, it seems, and I already used one in my "Three Lighthouses from Crete" article.  So here are two more.