Santillana del Mar, Spain
36,000 BCE
Villanueva del Río y Minas, Spain
1st century BCE
Grandas, Spain
800 BCE
Ronda, Spain
45 BCE
Mahón, Spain
1000 BCE
Ribeira, Spain
4000-3600 BCE
Marbella, Spain
0-100 AD
Artà, Spain
900-800 BCE
Oliva de Plasencia, Spain
1st century AD
Es Migjorn Gran, Spain
1000-700 BCE
Atapuerca, Spain
800000 BCE
Chelva, Spain
1st century AD
Alaior, Spain
1700-1400 BCE
Mérida, Spain
1st century AD
Eslava, Spain
1st century BCE
Portomarín, Spain
4th century BCE
Llucmajor, Spain
1100 BC
Garrovillas de Alconétar, Spain
2nd century AD
Ribadesella, Spain
33000-10000 BCE
Mérida, Spain
1st century AD
Towering 52 meters above the sea, Bengtskär lighthouse is the tallest one in Scandinavia. The building started in in 1905 after the shipwreck of S/S Helsingfors and was completed in 1906. The lighthouse was designed by architect Florentin Granholm. On December a special petrol lantern, designed and built in Paris, was brought to Bengtskär and installed atop the tower.
German fleet bombarded Bengstkär in the First World War in 1914. Since the Gulf of Finland was heavily mined, it was not until 1919 that the surrounding seas were declared safe for shipping, that the light was lit again.
After the war the military value of Bengtskär increased as part of the defence system of independent Finland. In Second World War (1941) Soviet Union made a suprise attack to island. After a bloody battle, the small Finnish garrison emerged victorious. Intermittent repairs to the facility continued during the post-war period.