BRIGANTIUM
(La Coruna) La Coruna, Spain.
Roman port in the NW of the peninsula, the principal monument of which is a lighthouse called the
Tower of Hercules, restored in the 18th c. Its plan was
square, with an outside access. It was 34.77 m high and
10.08 m wide, and was constructed by Caius Levius
Lupus, probably in the time of Trajan.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
J. R. Mélida,
Monumentos romanos de
España (1925); B. Taracena,
Ars Hispaniae II (1947)
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R. TEJA