The Madrid City Council’s Lighting and Communications Tower (Faro de Moncloa), better known as the Moncloa Lighthouse, is a 110-metre-high transmission tower located in the University City of Madrid (Complutense University), in the Moncloa-Aravaca district, Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain.
It is visible from all over the northwest of the capital.
It was designed by the Madrid architect Salvador Pérez Arroyo in 1990. It was built in 1992, and today it occupies the 11th place of the tallest buildings in Madrid, closely followed by the BBVA Tower, in AZCA. Access to the viewing area, at 92 m high, is via two exterior glass elevators, taking about 50 seconds to reach the top. The upper viewing platform is shaped like a crescent moon.
It is located a few metres from the Museo de América, breaking the aesthetics of the area. It can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday, and for safety reasons it has a limited capacity, as well as the prohibition of having more than one wheelchair at the same time on the viewing platform.
It is currently open to visitors from Tuesday to Sunday, from 9:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. (last ascent at 7:30 p.m.), and also some Mondays (holidays or the eve of holidays, Easter, Christmas, etc.).
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