Costa Brava Lighthouses
Coasts are like humans, some are beautiful, but often the beauty is tinged with danger. Costa Brava highlights this rule: the coast is a joy to behold, but often this coast has brought death and disaster to ships and their sailors. Innumerable ships have been stranded on our rocky coast.
Since navigation knowledge and charts existed, it was possible to warn sailors of dangerous shallows and rocks…first with simple wood fires, then, to be replaced with lighthouses with petroleum-fed fires and finally with electrical beacons.
Non-plus ultra of the technology today is the lighthouse of Cerbere, 
with solar energy.
In the south of our region is the lighthouse St. Sebastian at the Cap Bagur; 
and at the outermost point of the gulf of Roses, there is a white lighthouse, 
only one mile distant from the Medas islands and the metallic 297 meters high tower `Toran ” with its horizontal white and orange strips.
38 meters away from the sea, near the rock ” La Bateria “, radiates the lighthouse of Roses: 
a cylindrical, white tower in the midst of a house. Cadaqués calls its lighthouse “Cebolla” (bulb). 
It is 27 meters above the sea on the “Cala Nans”
The Cap Creus, with its gigantic rock massif was always a great navigational danger. Its white lighthouse 
rises up 11 meters.
In Port de la Selva, the lighthouse Sarnella 
emits its light into the night, squarely from a grey building. The last lighthouse before the border with France is in Colera, a small red-white tower at the port entrance.
Although all of these lighthouses are in operation, the time of the lighthouse attendants belongs to the past. Today, all lighthouses beacons are controlled remotely from Barcelona. Only periodically does maintenance staff visit the lighthouses.