Carbonera Lighthouse
El Faro de Carbonera, registered officially as Torre Carbonera, or Torre de Punta Mala, is an active lighthouse located on Punta Mala, in the coastal town of La Alcaidesa, Spain, overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar.Photo: Rockysantos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in La Línea de la Concepción, Province of Cádiz, Spain
- Also known as: “Faro de Carbonera”, “Faro de Punta Carbonera”, and “Torre Carbonera”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Playa de La Alcaidesa and San Roque Club.
Playa de La Alcaidesa
Beach
Photo: pablogavilan, CC BY 2.0.
Playa de La Alcaidesa is a beach in the municipalities of La Línea de la Concepción and San Roque, in the Province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain. It is a blue flag beach with calm waters, unspoilt vegetation, and relatively low-medium occupancy. Playa de La Alcaidesa is situated 1¼ km southwest of Carbonera Lighthouse.
San Roque Club
Golf course
The San Roque Club is a country club and Gated Community located in San Roque, in the Andalusia region in Southern Spain, a few miles from Gibraltar. The Old course was designed by Dave Thomas and constructed in 1990. San Roque Club is situated 4 km northwest of Carbonera Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Alcaidesa and Sotogrande.
La Alcaidesa
Suburb
Sotogrande
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sotogrande is the largest privately owned residential development in Andalusia, Spain. It is a private community in the municipality of San Roque. Located 25 km northeast of Gibraltar, Sotogrande is composed of a 25-square-kilometre stretch from the… Sotogrande is situated 4 km north of Carbonera Lighthouse.
Carbonera Lighthouse
- Categories: watchtower, monument, building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: San Roque, Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.24455° or 36° 14′ 40″ northLongitude
-5.30128° or 5° 18′ 5″ westOpen location code
8C8P6MVX+RFOpenStreetMap ID
way 564494560OpenStreetMap feature
building=lighthouseOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouseWikidata ID
Q30069010
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Satellite Map
Discover Carbonera Lighthouse from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Carbonera Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Torre Carbonera”
- French: “phare de Punta Carbonera”
- French: “Phare de Punta Carbonera”
- French: “Torre Carbonera”
- Galician: “Torre Carbonera”
- German: “Torre Carbonera”
- Spanish: “Faro de Carbonera”
- Spanish: “Torre Carbonera”
- Spanish: “Torre de Punta Mala”
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