France’s last inhabited lighthouse gets Unesco status – in pictures
by Phillipe Lopez/Agence France Presse from on (#5MMBM)
The Cordouan beacon is the last to be inhabited in France and only the second, after the Tower of Hercules at La Coruna in Spain, to be added to Unesco's World Heritage list. Cordouan was built at the end of the 16th century and overlooks the Atlantic Ocean from the mouth of the Gironde estuary in south-western France