Marine Lighthouse

The La Marina Lighthouse (Spanish: Faro de la Marina) is an active lighthouse located on high cliffs above the Pacific Ocean in Lima's Miraflores district. It is one of the country's most well-known and visited lighthouses. Originally built in 1900 at Punta Coles, a headland near Ilo, the lighthouse was dismantled and rebuilt in Miraflores in 1973 by the Peruvian Navy's Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation. It has remained in the appropriately named Parque el Faro, one of a number of popular parks above the city's cliffs commemorating a century of Peruvian navigation.

The gallery and lantern on the 22-meter (72-foot) iron tower are painted a very dark blue with two white bands. Its light can be seen for 24.3 nautical miles and consists of three flashes of white light spread out over fifteen seconds. Many people believe that Frances Gustave Eiffel, the 19th-century French engineer who built the Eiffel Tower and designed the iron skeleton inside the Statue of Liberty, designed this famous lighthouse. However, there is no documentation to support this, so it appears to be an urban legend. This is one of the best places to visit in Lima.

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Address: Mal. Cisneros 18, Miraflores 15074, Peru
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