Tourist attraction
Faro Inclinado
Tilted concrete lighthouse on the beach, knocked askew by a 1967 hurricane and kept as a landmark.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Faro Inclinado in Puerto Morelos, just up the coast from Playa del Carmen, starts with a comparison that sounds wrong: a small concrete lighthouse from nineteen forty-six set against the most famous leaning tower in the world. It follows the tower through a September night in nineteen sixty-seven, when Hurricane Beulah reached this beach, and the choice the town made the morning after. Best heard on the sand facing the tower, with the working lighthouse at your back.
This audio guide was created using AI.