Lighthouses across Europe
On coastlines all around Europe, lighthouses have guided sailors and ships to safety. This gallery of photographs shines a light on the architecture of lighthouses across the continent. Gallery curated by Europeana Common Culture project partners
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Aga-fyr i New York Harbour vid Ambrose Channel.
Architectural drawings and plan of a lighthouse
Kõpu lighthouse is the symbol of Hiiumaa. It is also the oldest lighthouse remaining in the Baltics. The tower constructions began in 1505 and were finished by 1531. Built from boulders and limestone, the square side-supported pyramide shape reaches a hei…
Gunnar Lund flyttar från fyrskepper Svinbådan; Lindberg Foto; Foto
The Old Fishing
depicts lighthouse and gun emplacement at Steep Holm, Bristol Channel, c1880.
Vykort: "Vinga fyr i storm"
Pater Nosters Lighthouse from South. In the foreground, a man sits on a cliff.
Drottning Victorias bilder. Fyr på Capri.
Fyr, troligen i Gryts skärgård.
Draailicht voor vuurtoren. Het draailicht met lenzen naar het systeem van Auguste-Jean Fresnel staat op een houten vloer voor een donker doek en bestaat uit een glazen lamp op een open draaimechanisme.
The lighthouse from 1870 is 13.4 m high. Constructed by Gustav von Heidenstam. Out of service since 1968.
Landsort Lighthouse , Öja island (Landsort), Stockholm archipelago's most southern point. During the Cold War and World War II was Landsort a military base for the Swedish coastal artillery.
Lighthouse in the Archaeological Park, Paphos, Cyprus
Väderöbods Lighthouse. Sweden Pictures Swedish Tourist Association. County of Bohus 42. Photo: E. Almqvist. In the southwestern part of the Väderögruppen is the quadrangle Väderöbod, whose staff has the most single-seater living area throughout the county…
Text on the card: “Hållö fyr. Bohuslän.”
The Harbour Colour in the company of Sporsén. Sunday June 15, 1924.; Pater Noster’s Lighthouse. State building memory in 2015.
According to text written on the back “A Mourning Cold at Käringön.”
Skioptikonbild med motiv från Paris, världsutställning Exposition Universelle, 1900. Den tyska fyren, le Phare Allemand. Bilden har förvarats i kartong märkt: ?
Fyren på Arholma, Stockholm skärgård.
Ystads fyr 1897.
Printed text on the card: “The lighthouse of the painting at Käringön.” “Publishers: Albert Wallins Bokhandel, Lysekil.”; The Island of Love.
The temporary Avonmouth lighthouse built in 1903 to take the place of the stone one demolished to make way for the Royal Edward Dock. It stood in front of the site of the later Amenity Block. Note the semaphore signal at the Gloucester Road railway crossi…
The entrance to the Pater Noster lighthouse, with a group of summer-dressed people.
Eckerous lighthouse in its natural place, south of Mollösund. The lighthouse showed the approach to the fairway for the south coming boat traffic. The lighthouse was later moved to St Erik’s Park in Marstrand.
Troell, Jan (1931-)
Fyren. Minnne från utställningen Göteborg. 1923. Medium på orginalet: glasplåt 9x6 cm; Foto: Nils Jönsson / Malmö museum
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