The Tower of Hercules is the only lighthouse in the world, which is considered a "World Heritage" distinction that was granted to it at the 33rd Meeting of the Committee on World Heritage, held in Seville from 22 to 27 June 2009 (Photography Culture Xunta de Galicia) It is the only Roman factory lighthouse that from its origins to the present has fulfilled its primitive function, that of serving as a maritime signal and instrument of navigation for the ships that passed through and through the Atlantic corridor. Located at the entrance to the Puerto de La Coruña, it is a unique emblem, both for the city itself and for all of Galicia. It was built between the second half of the first century and the beginning of the second century d. C. by the Roman Empire, in the "finis terrae" of the known world, to accompany the ships bordering the most western end of the Empire. It is located in the NO of the Iberian Peninsula, in the city of La Coruña, in Galicia the place chosen for its location was a rocky hill, called the Eiras tip, almost 57 meters high, located between the tip of Herminia and the tip of the Orzan, dominating the northern end of the peninsula on which the very city of A Coruña is located. When the Romans built the Tower, they chose land that was part of a space of worship or indigenous sanctuary. Celts often consecrated coastal promontories to divinities similar to Hercules. In addition, in the case of Coruñés, it is a coincidence that the three rocks that are located in the sea, opposite Punta Eiras, are known as Buey, Vaca and Becerro, the same names that are repeated in the Kenmare shrine, on the coast SO of Ireland, where traditions place the island of Donn or the Dead. Therefore, on the grounds surrounding the Tower there would have been in the pre-Roman era a sanctuary linked to the beliefs of the beyond that would corroborate the sacred character of the entire area. The Tower in the time it was built was far from the Roman city of Brigantium that gave rise to A Coruña, but with the passage of time the distance was reduced to disappear and now the Tower is integrated into the city itself but within a large urban park that occupies 50 hectares of land free of buildings, defined as a rustic soil of special protection and dedicated to green area. This recovered area has a great landscape value because it is a stretch of coast of enormous natural beauty, with abrupt cliffs that fall to the sea, forming a lot of entrants and outflows where the waves of the Atlantic break with violence. From this privileged atalaya is dominated all of the Gulf of Arteabre, which comprises from Cape San Adrián to Cape Prior, a large area in which the Sisargas Islands, the islands of O Portiño, A Marola and As Gabeiras are located, as well as the entrance of the Rias of the Burgo, Betanzos and Ferrol. For its location this park surrounding the Tower is an observatory from which you can often see species of birds such as cormorans, seagulls, arches and araos that have their nests on the nearby cliffs. http: / / www.torredeherculesacoruna.com /