Armenistis Lighthouse
Octagonal stone tower marking a headland where a shipwreck once claimed eleven lives.
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This guide to Armenistis Lighthouse in Mykonos opens with an optical illusion: two mountain peaks that looked like separate islands with open water between them, an illusion that sent the British steamship Volta onto the rocks here in 1887. It follows the wreck, the eleven men who drowned that night, and the Greek state's decision to commission a lighthouse for this exact headland, lit for the first time on the ninth of September 1891 with an award-winning French-built lens. You'll hear about the keepers who tended it through winter gales until electricity and automation changed their work. Stand at the headland and take in the same stretch of water the Volta went down in.
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