The 62-metre Miķeļ Lighthouse was built in 1884 and is the tallest lighthouse in the Baltics. It has a 56-metre viewing platform. The walls of the lighthouse used to be about one metre thick, but the tower was too heavy for the sand of the dunes, so over time it has become more and more crumbling.

The lighthouse in the ancient Liv village, formerly known as Pizi (in Latvian as kārkla vicu), was not called Pizes Tower, but Mihailabāku, because its purpose was to warn sailors of the shoal of the same name. Later the name was latinised – Miķeļ Beacon, also Miķeļtornis.

To climb up to the lighthouse you need to make quite a bit of effort, because the stairs have different steps – sometimes steeper, sometimes more gentle.

The lighthousecan be seen only from the outside.

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