When the Greeks were under the Ottoman yoke, I was able to edit the lighting of the coast and for this reason at that time was dark on the coast of the Peloponnese and the Aegean islands.
In 1829 for the beacons date – key, well then lit the first beacon of the newly established Greek state, and was in the port of Aegina, where he was declared the capital of the Greek State by Kapodistrias.
The next lighthouse, which operated in accordance with information, dates back to the year 1831 in the port of Spetses and a third at the port of Agios Nikolaos Kea.
A few years later, in 1848 was the lighthouse on the island of Psyttaleia and immediately after another at cape wood pigeon.
When was the annexation of the Ionian Islands had been added, and 18 other lighthouses, of which 14 had installed the English.
The Greek Lighthouse Network was growing at a satisfactory rate, and in the year 1882 he arrived to 40 already beacons, while in 1897 the number of beacons and the torch was 97, and in 1912, the 149.
The placement of lighting in hard to reach places of the Greek seas was a difficult case, up to the moment that was implemented in the Swedish invention of the automatic lighthouse AGA that after long-term testing has allowed the lighting and of these points.
Thus, we arrive at the year 1934, where the Greek lighthouse network consists of 331 torches, of which 32 torches were installed by the French company ‘ASMINISTRATION GENERAL DES PHARES DE L ‘EMPIRE OTTOMAN’ on the shores of the granting of the new areas.
The number of beacons that were the 1940 reached 388, while the 206 was under surveillance. The release, however, he found the Greek lighthouse network completely damaged with only 28 torches are no longer in operation.
A good effort for the restoration of the lighthouse network was launched in 1945, where within a decade the torches that were in operation were already 500, while the 82 of them were probies.
Since then, the Greek lighthouse network is on the rise, having come to in our days around 1400 beacons and 150 buoys.