Punta de Teno lighthouse (Spanish: Faro de Punta de Teno) is an active lighthouse in the municipality of Buenavista del Norte on the Canary Island of Tenerife. The current lighthouse was the second to be built on the narrow rocky headland of Punta de Teno, the westernmost point of the island. It is one of the seven lighthouses that mark Tenerife's coastline, and lies between the Punta Rasca lighthouse to the southeast and the modern Buenavista lighthouse to the northeast.
The first lighthouse was completed in 1897 as part of the first maritime lighting scheme for the Canary Islands. Built in the same style as other Canarian 19th-century lights, it consists of a single-storey whitewashed building, with dark volcanic rock used for the masonry details. The light came from a lantern room at the top of an eight-metre-high brick tower attached to the sea side of the house, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. It remained in service until it was replaced by the new modern tower in the 1970s.
The new lighthouse, built next to the original building, was first commissioned in 1978. It consists of a 20-metre-high cylindrical tower, which is white with red bands, supporting two galleries and a lantern with a white dome. The design is similar to the new tower of the Fuencaliente lighthouse on La Palma.
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