The Créac’h lighthouse, a real beacon of the boats crossing off the coast of Ouessant, is in the dark this Sunday, October 20, 2024. At 10 p.m., the situation had not been restored.
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The Créac’h lighthouse on the island of Ouessant is broken. | WEST-FRANCE ARCHIVES
This breakdown questions and worries. This night of Sunday October 20, 2024 will remain engraved in the memory as a dark night without a Créac’h lighthouse. This almost 161-year-old lighthouse has become the most powerful in the world, a place of technological innovation.
“We have never experienced this”
Many Ouessant residents went to take a closer look at the extinguished lighthouse: “We never experienced this during the time of the guards”could be heard in the darkness.
The news of this breakdown of the Créac’h lighthouse arrived at Phares et Balises via the CROSS and the Stiff semaphore.
At 10:15 p.m. the situation had not yet been restored.
