The Lighthouse
February 15, 2024
St. Mary's Lighthouse.
This is the St. Mary's Lighthouse in Culatra Island (also incorrectly known as Farol Island).
The cool thing about lighthouses in Portugal is that they can be visited. Some of them at least, but only on wednesdays, if you manage to find the lighthouse keeper (I wouldn't blame him for hiding) and convince him to climb the equivalent of 15 flights of stairs more than the usual two times he has to climb every single day to draw and withdraw the lighthouse's curtains.
The winding staircase climbing 45 meters.
The view from one of the south facing windows.
The view from the top.