The lantern of the Lågskär lighthouse and the slanted pane windows of the lantern room. Black and white photo.
The lantern of the Lågskär lighthouse and the slanted pane windows of the lantern room. Black and white photo.

Lågskär Lantern

starting at €90.00

The lens of the Lågskär lighthouse, built to replace the one destroyed in World War I, was installed in the lighthouse lantern in the summer of 1920. The largest lens manufactured by AGA at that time was one of the first automatically rotating flashing devices in the world. The lantern room is one of the most beautiful I have ever seen.

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The lens of the Lågskär lighthouse, built to replace the one destroyed in World War I, was installed in the lighthouse lantern in the summer of 1920. The largest lens manufactured by AGA at that time was one of the first automatically rotating flashing devices in the world. The lantern room is one of the most beautiful I have ever seen.

The LIGHTHOUSE stands at the edge of the world. The stairs smoothed by thousands of steps lead to the lantern room. From there, you can see the shadows of the clouds reflected in the mirror of the sea – and the small world of the lighthouse island or cape. In Finland lighthouses began to be left without keepers or even become completely unnecessary from the 1050s. It was not until the turn of the millennium that the cultural and architectural value of these sea markers, abandoned to the mercy of the weather and vandalism, began to be understood and efforts were initiated to save them. Everyone who has participated in saving even one of our lighthouses has given a gift to all Finns.

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