The Tower of Hercules was built by the
Romans as lighthouse of navigation in the century II d.C.
The Tower of Hercules is a tower and
lighthouse situated in the peninsula of the city of The Coruña, in Spain.
Has the privilege to be the Roman only lighthouse and the oldest one in
operation of the world.
There are several legends related to its
construction. One of them counts that Hercules arrived in boat to the coasts
that surround at present the Tower, and that was exactly there the place
where buried the head of the gigantic one Gerión, after conquering him in
battle.
The mythology says that "there was a called
giant Gerión, king of Brigantium, that obliged its súdbitos to deliver him
the half of its goods, including its children. A day the subjects decided to
ask aid to Hercules that challenged to Gerión in a great fight. Hercules
defeated to Gerión, buried it and raised a barrow that crowned with a great
torch. Near this barrow founded a city and, as the first person that arrived
was a called woman Cruña, Hercules put to the city this name.
