February 2020

Spanish students from 4th grade of Secondary Education have worked on an interesting investigation about the darkest part of one of our most emblematic monuments, considered World Heritage: The Tower of Hercules.

This activity consisted of searching for information about the environmental disasters that took place near this monument. Among them, we can highlight the following oil tankers which crashed and poured high quantities of petroleum in the coast of Galicia: “Urquiola” in 1976, “Mar Egeo” in 1992 and “Prestige” in 2002.

We expressed the most outstanding data derived from this investigation in a board, where you can see the definition of each disaster, its place and year, as well as its causes and consequences.

Thanks to this activity, students have known a little bit more of the history of this roman lighthouse so symbolic for Galician people