page_title: La Tremblade
section_title: La Coubre Lighthouse
hierarchical_section_title: La Tremblade / La Coubre Lighthouse
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Dunes à la pointe de la Coubre (Charente-Maritime)
context_page_description: La Tremblade is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department and Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in south-western France.
context_section_description: Several temporary lighthouses were established during the nineteenth century, but they were all undermined by the sea. An imperial decree of 12 May 1860 ordered the establishment of a lighthouse on the north bank of the Gironde estuary, because of the many shipwrecks, although it was not until 1895 that a stone lighthouse 57 metres high was erected. The building collapsed in May 1907 due to erosion by the sea.
  The La Coubre Lighthouse, the construction of which was decided in October 1904, was commissioned in 1905. Purposely built 1800 meters from the shore, the rapid erosion of the sandbanks in the estuary meant that by 2010 it was only 150 meters from the high-tide mark. The lighthouse is in poor condition and has many cracks and leaks.
  It was decorated for the celebration of its centenary in 2005, and included a display tracing the history of lighthouses in the estuary of the Gironde. The La Coubre lighthouse was registered as an historic monument on 15 April 2015.
caption: Dunes à la pointe de la Coubre
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