Faro Camarinal

The busiest stretch (from the car park to the lighthouse itself) is about 1.7 km, or 30 to 45 minutes on foot, with a gentle gradient along the coastal path. A longer there-and-back loop comes to 3.5 km in roughly an hour. Several route guides extend the walk as far as the Playa del Cañuelo, a further 1.3 km from the lighthouse following the coast. The path crosses the pine wood, runs along the cliffs and opens onto panoramic viewpoints over Bolonia and the strait.

The present lighthouse was built on the site of an old 16th-century watchtower, the Torre Vieja or Torre del Cabo de Gracia, erected under Felipe II to protect the Cádiz coast from Barbary raids. All around the cape you can make out the working faces of the Roman quarries: this is where the builders of Baelo Claudia took the calcarenite for the columns, arches and capitals of the ancient city. At least four quarry faces have been identified in the area.