I've featured a few lighthouses from Spain as Lighthouses of the Week -- it has a lot of coastline, obviously -- but I don't think I've ever gone to the southeastern coast, which is the region of Valencia. So this time I did, and I found a coastal village and a light that it is important to pronounce correctly: Peñíscola.
I've provided a general description of where it's located, but here's a map to find it. I had to zoom it out quite a bit so you can see where it is in relation to Valencia.
So now, let's get the basic information about it, from the Lighthouse Directory:
"1898 (Francisco Pérez Alonso). Active; focal plane 56 m (184 ft); three white flashes, in a 2+1 pattern, every 15 s. 11 m (36 ft) round masonry tower with lantern and double gallery, attached to the front of a 2-story masonry keeper's house. 3rd order Fresnel lens in use. Lighthouse painted white; lantern is gray metallic. ... The lighthouse stands just below the castle on a walled promontory extending from the village of Peñíscola. Site open, tower closed."
Castle? What castle? In the first picture, you can see the lighthouse next to the castle, which according to the Lighthouse Directory (and history) once was the refuge of an excommunicated anti-Pope. Seriously.
Here are four other pictures of this faro.
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