Sopot Lighthouse
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Sopot Lighthouse - navigation aid on the Polish coast of the Baltic Sea, located in Sopot. The lighthouse was built in 1903-1904. No it fits the present criteria, so the beacon is not functioning. The lighthouse is open to visitors. The tower's height is 30 meters, with its picturesque panorama of the city and the surrounding area of ​​Sopot. The lighthouse was built of red bricks, the tower has a pyramidal roof. The lantern is attached to one of the windows on the east. A beacon of light on the seven nautical miles at an interval of 4 seconds.

When completed in 1904, the lighthouse was working before the Second World War. In the postwar years the building of the lighthouse was transferred to the city hospital. In 1975, the hospital infrastructure has been upgraded, and then became a beacon for the medical establishment only encumbrance. In the eighties of the twentieth century, the lighthouse has been restored and included in the list of existing Polish lighthouses. Due to the lack of technical reserves shortly lighthouse obsolete and no longer meet modern requirements. Currently Sopot lighthouse is a tourist attraction of the city.

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