The Tower of Hercules is an ancient Roman lighthouse located on a peninsula about 2.4 kilometers of the center of the city of A Coruņa, Galicia, in present-day northwestern Spain. The lighthouse is almost 1900 years old, standing 57 meters high, overlooking the North Atlantic coast of Spain. It is the oldest active Roman lighthouse in the world. The Tower of Hercules is a National Monument of Spain.
