Even older than the Hagia Sophia is the second century Torre de Hércules in Galicia, Spain. Excluding tombs (which, in a sense, are always occupied) perhaps only one or two other continually used buildings in the world are old as this lighthouse.

(photograph by Fernando Méndez)

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