Ristna

Ristna Lighthouse has effectively aided the navigation of ships traveling on the Baltic Sea since 1874, guiding them along the shipping lane that bypasses the Hiiu shoal. Additionally, it has provided information about severe ice conditions in the Gulf of Finland during winter. Ristna Lighthouse has shown extraordinary resilience during world wars. In 1917, warships fired over 200 bombs at the tower, but despite German precision, more serious damage to the lighthouse occurred only during later bombings when its supporting buttresses and lower cylindrical section were riddled with holes. To ensure stability, a concrete jacket was poured around the lighthouse in 1920, which covered its eye-catching feature – the metal lattice structure. Nevertheless, Ristna Lighthouse remains quite distinctive from Estonia's other lighthouses with its eight profile-iron buttresses and has definitively been proven to have originated from the studio of the famous French engineer Gustave Eiffel.