Tower of Hercules

Many lighthouses were built around the Mediterranean and around the shores of their expanding empire, including the Tower of Hercules at A Coruña in northern Spain, a structure which still survives to this day.

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Chronicle descriptions make it clear the decorations, carved and painted had martial iconography ; " The foregate of the same palace or place with great and mighty masonry by sight was arched, with a Tower on every side of the same portered by great craft, and inbatteled was the gate and Tower, and in the fenesters, and windows, were images resembling men of warre redie to cast great stones: also the same gate or Tower was set with compassed images of ancient Princes, as Hercules, Alexander and other, by entrayled worke, richly limned with gold and Albyn colours, .... also the tower of the Gate as seemed was built by great masonry, ... for the sundrie countenances of every Image that their appeared, some shooting, some casting, some ready to strike, and firing of gonnes, which shewed very honourably.

One of them, Breogán, built a tower at a place called Brigantia ( probably in the coast of Galicia, near A Coruña ( Corunna ), which was then " Brigantia " ( today Betanzos ) and where a Celtic tribe called " Brigantes " is attested in ancient times — see Tower of Hercules ) from the top of which he, or his son Íth, first saw Ireland.

Tower of Hercules ( A Coruña, Galicia ( Spain ) | Galicia ) rebuilt 2nd and 18th centuries: According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, Breogán was the father of Ith, the leader of an expedition to Ireland from the Iberian Peninsula ; from Breogán's Tower Ith first saw Ireland, 900 kilometres north

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A large statue of Breogán has been erected near the Tower of Hercules.

The Tower of Hercules ( Galician and Spanish: Torre de Hércules ) is an ancient Roman lighthouse on a peninsula about from the centre of A Coruña, Galicia, in north-western Spain.

The Tower of Hercules is a National Monument of Spain, and since June 27, 2009, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

* Tower of Hercules, an ancient Roman lighthouse at A Coruña, Galicia, Spain

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Tower of Hercules.

They also built many lighthouses, such as the Tower of Hercules in northern Spain, which survives to this day as a working building, and the equally famous lighthouse at Dover Castle, which survives to about half its original height as a ruin.

A famous example is the Tower of Hercules in A Coruña, Spain, and there is another at Dover, England which still stands to about half its original height.

The intact Tower of Hercules at A Coruña and the ruins of the Dover lighthouse give insight into construction ; other evidence about lighthouses exists in of depictions on coins and mosaics, of which many represent the lighthouse at Ostia.

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One of Mary's first actions as queen was to order the release of the Roman Catholic Duke of Norfolk and Stephen Gardiner from imprisonment in the Tower of London, as well as her kinsman Edward Courtenay.

Other noble examples can be seen in the churches of St. Didier, St. Peter and St. Agricola, as well as the Clock Tower, and in the fortifications built between 1349 and 1368 for a distance of some three miles ( 5 km ), and flanked by thirty-nine towers, all of which were erected or restored by the Roman Catholic Church.

Leopard domestication has also been recorded — several leopards were kept in a menagerie established by King John at the Tower of London in the 13th century ; around 1235, three of these animals were given to Henry III by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II.

The most known are the Tower of the Comentini ( 13th century ), the octagonal Torre de Regibus and Torre Troyana ( 13th century ), as well as the ancient Rossa di San Secondo, built during the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus.

The remains of the East Tower of Porta Praetoria from Ancient Roman times

Three towers survive from the medieval Conciergerie: the Caesar Tower, named in honor of the Roman Emperors ; the Silver Tower, so named for its ( alleged ) use as the store for the royal treasure ; and the Bonbec (" good beak ") Tower, which obtained its name from the torture chamber that it housed, in which victims were encouraged to " sing ".

Like other towers in the town, from 1686 onwards, the Constance Tower was used as a prison for the Huguenots who refused to convert to Roman Catholicism.

Bethnal Green forms a part of Tower Hamlets and Hackney, centred around the Central Line tube station at the junction of Bethnal Green Road, Roman Road and Cambridge Heath Road.

* The nearby Mont Cavalier is crowned by the Tour Magne (" Great Tower "), a ruined Roman tower.

In the south-west corner of the castle is a cylindrical tower named Adrian's Tower from the popular legend that it was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

In an example of an architectural frieze on the façade of a building, the octagonal Tower of the Winds in the Roman agora at Athens bears relief sculptures of the eight winds on its frieze.

Buildings of note are Saint Cadoc's Church, the National Roman Legion Museum, the Roman Baths Museum, The Mynde, The Priory Hotel, Caerleon Catholic Church and Rectory, Caerleon Endowed School, the Round Tower, the Toll House at Caerleon Bridge, The Malt House hotel, University of Wales, Newport Caerleon Campus and St Cadoc's Hospital.

Despite begging for mercy, and claims of conversion to Roman Catholicism, he was executed by Jack Ketch on 15 July 1685, on Tower Hill.

Religious landmarks include Birkenhead Priory & St. Mary's Tower, St. James ' Church and St. Werburgh's Roman Catholic Church.

The Tower of the Winds, also called horologion ( timepiece ), is an octagonal Pentelic marble clocktower on the Roman agora in Athens.

Opposed to the growth of " popery and arbitrary government ", throughout the latter half of the 1670s Shaftesbury argued in favour of frequent parliaments ( spending time in the Tower of London, 1677-1678 for espousing this view ) and argued that the nation needed protection from a potential Roman Catholic successor to King Charles II.

The compass rose is an old design element found on compasses, maps and even monuments ( e. g. the Tower of the Winds in Athens, the pavement in Dougga, Tunis, during Roman times ) to show cardinal directions and frequently intermediate direction.

* Tower ( Castle ) of Bramafan, built in the 11th century over a Roman bastion.

Notable are the Tower and Mausoleums, Casieri Bagnoli and Barbarossa, and the Arch of Gaius Terentius Varro, opus latericium and the opus reticulatum monuments dedicated to the passage of the Roman consul in the Battle of Cannae.

Other active churches include Christ Church Anglican Church, the KingsWay independent church, Glenorchy United Reform Church, the Tower Street Methodist Church, The Ichthus Community Church, the Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Church and Exmouth Baptist Church.

Statue of Trajan in front of a section of the Roman wall, Tower Hill.

The name Streoneshalh is thought to signify Fort Bay or Tower Bay in reference to a supposed Roman settlement that previously existed on the site.

Just south of the lighthouse is a Coast Guard radar station, equipped with a Doppler radar tower, close to the nearby Jenny Lind Tower.

His lighthouse remained in use until 1877 when the rock underlying the structure's foundations had begun to erode ; it was dismantled and partially rebuilt at Plymouth Hoe where it is known as Smeaton's Tower.

The third, also known as Smeaton's Tower, is the best known because of its influence on lighthouse design and its importance in the development of concrete for building.

The suspense drama Tower of Terror, released in late December 1941 was styled in the manner of a horror film, and it starred Wilfrid Lawson as a crazed Dutch lighthouse keeper in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, while the second-billed Rennie and third-billed Movita had the romantic leads.

The ruins of the lighthouse on the promontory that faces Samos, called the " Tower of Icarus ", were strictly off limits to the islanders, as tradition asserted that there was treasure to be found in them.

In 1287, an earthquake devastated the town and caused widespread damage to the fortifications, destroying the Pigeon Tower, the Pier Tower and the lighthouse.

The lighthouse was, contrary to common opinion, not designed by famous French engineer Gustave Eiffel ( who also designed the world famous Eiffel Tower in Paris ), but the Spanish engineer Rafael Ravena in 1886.

The lighthouse operated in tandem with a shore station, the Bell Rock Signal Tower, built in 1813 at the mouth of Arbroath harbour.

Today this building houses the Signal Tower Museum, a visitor centre detailing the history of the lighthouse.

** The Town Park sits above the picturesque Promenade area with walks towards the Chaine Memorial Tower at Sandy Bay-a lighthouse and memorial to the founder of Larne Harbour sea route to Scotland.

The original lighthouse, known as the Round Tower, was built to replace the light on the top of the 14th-century tower of St Andrews Church.

The original lighthouse, known as the Round Tower, was built after the local vicar, either John Goulden in 1764 or Walter Harris in 1799, raised a subscription amongst the local population to replace the light on the top of St Andrews Church tower.

Josias Jessop was responsible for the repair and maintenance of Rudyerd ’ s Tower, a wooden lighthouse on the Eddystone Rock.

The Aloha Tower is a lighthouse that is considered one of the landmarks of the state of Hawaii in the United States.

Here also stands an interesting towering building called the Tower of Lloyd, which is an 18th century lighthouse folly in the form of a giant Doric column, surmounted by glazed lantern, erected to the memory of Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective, by his son.

As the sea retreated, this had to be replaced in 1635 by a new lighthouse nearer to the water's edge known as Lamplough's Tower.

In 1901 building of the fourth lighthouse, the High Light Tower, started.

In the port area are the Pemex Tower, the old lighthouse, which was the seat of government for Venustiano Carranza, and the Crafts Market.

On it there is a clock tower and an iron lighthouse, imported from Hamburg, Germany, an allusion to the Eiffel Tower.

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The first lighthouse at Hurst was the Hurst Tower, sited to the south west of Hurst Castle, and lit for the first time on 29th September 1786.

A single tower survivesd today as the Nab Tower lighthouse.

The lighthouse was designed by Henry Lepaute who worked for Gustave Eiffels engineering company and built by the same company in France that manufactured the components for the Eiffel Tower.

He leads the army for years, finally defeating Necrom's forces and forcing Necrom to retreat towards the Tower That Crosses Time ( Excalibur's lighthouse ).