A monument, a feat, a work of art… How did people imagine, raise, sculpt, sculpt the lighthouse of Córdoba in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and the waters of the Gironde? The more the star moves away from Royan port, the more the feeling of getting closer to an extraordinary place increases. Its location in the Gironde estuary, the widest, 12 kilometers, in Europe. It sits on a rocky plateau. Its surrounding wall, its crown, which houses the former engineer’s quarters and the current living quarters of the guard, and its narrow shaft topped with lanterns, all 67.5 meters above the waves. How is that possible? “The mysteries surrounding the lighthouse are great, warns Benoît Genuvrier, one of the six guards. Corduan cannot reveal all his secrets.
From the launch to the amphibious boat, walking on the sand, then on the landing bank, a peirat dating from 1739, you are at his feet. The double door went through…
Source: Le Figaro
