Lighthouses

Iceland holds twenty-four of them, across the Reykjanes peninsula, the northeast and the west. Many are small concrete towers painted bright orange, built between 1897 and the 1970s and reached by gravel track. The eleven in Spain stand on cliffs above the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, six of those in the Balearics. Most towers are closed, so the visit is the drive and the view, and a few need a 4x4, a boat or a low tide to reach at all.