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Cordouan Lighthouse
The Cordoba Lighthouse is located on a rocky plateau in the shallow Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Gironde River, in an extremely harsh environment. Built at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, the lighthouse was designed by engineer Louis de Foix and rebuilt at the end of the 18th century by engineer Joseph Teulère using white limestone blocks. A masterpiece of maritime signalling, the Cordoba Lighthouse features a magnificent tower decorated with pilasters, buttresses and gargoyles. It embodies a great phase in the history of lighthouse architecture and technology, built with the ambition to continue the tradition of the famous lighthouses of antiquity, demonstrating the art of lighthouse construction during the Renaissance, when lighthouses played an important role as territorial markers and safety tools. Finally, the increase in the height of the lighthouse and the changes to the lighthouse room at the end of the 18th century bear witness to the scientific and technological progress of the time. Its architectural form draws inspiration from ancient models, the Renaissance style and the specific architectural language of the School of Roads, Bridges and Roads, the French engineering school.
The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainaut)
The four hydraulic boat lifts on this short stretch of the historic Canal du Centre are industrial monuments of the highest quality. Together with the canal itself and its associated buildings, they form a typical example of a well-preserved late 19th-century industrial landscape. Of the eight hydraulic boat lifts built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the four on the Canal du Centre are the only ones in the world still in original working condition.