When Gaio Sevio Lupo, a Portuguese architect from Coimbra who served the Roman Empire, built the Flavium or Pharum Brigantium over a peninsula in the South end of the Artabrian Gulf in order to guide the ships in the Finisterrae of Europe, little did he imagine that that lighthouse, known for centuries as Tower of Hercules, would be, two thousand years later, in the same place and with the samefunction.

The history of Spain, Europe, and the rest of the world, would not have been the same if this lighthouse had not existed, a lighthouse which, two thousand years after its construction, is still a witness and a guide for the navigation of one of the busiest shipping routes on the whole planet. It is the only Roman lighthouse which still remains with its altruist mission nowadays. This is an outstanding building with a Roman designed interior and foundations and a neoclassical outside, and with a citizen symbolism which goes beyond the limits of laity to become an element of almost religious adoration.

For all this, the TOWER OF HERCULES RESEARCH INSTITUTE, a cultural institution created to promote the artistic, cultural and monumental heritage of La Corunna, considers a duty to request the UNESCO, along with the support of the implicated official body, the recognition of the human, historical, artistic and cultural values of the oldest and active lighthouse in the world, declaring the Tower of Hercules “World Cultural Heritage”.