Small valley located at the exit of Andratx towards Estellencs.
Small valley of Andratx with old estates such as Son Lluís, several isolated houses and the neighborhood of Sa Coma. It is accessed from Son Mas following the road that goes to the village of Es Capdellà.
This stone monument is located far up the Ma-12 motorway, near the turn-off that leads to Son Serra de Marina. It is a characteristic example of a quadrangular talayot, with carved ashlars and a well-preserved lintelled doorway. Around it, there are several walls and attached constructions. When the motorway was built, a sanctuary that used to be in the same spot was destroyed.
The farm known as Gabellí Petit is a beautiful spot near Campanet that regularly offers the magnificent spectacle of underground waters coursing to the surface in the midst of a verdant grove of oak trees. In 2005, the Balearic Government acquired the emblematic 44.91-hectare farmstead called Gabellí Petit, home to Les Fonts Ufanes, which was declared a natural monument in 2001 and is part of the public heritage. This phenomenon usually takes place after a period of more or less intense rains that generate a spontaneous water course that can vary between 3,000 to 100,000 litres per second. The discharge is produced when the impermeable layers of clay are saturated and impede the circulation of underground waters, causing them to flow to the surface. The stream is fed by the waters of the aquifers in the zone (Sa Pobla, Pollença, Campanet and Búger) and the Albufera Nature Park. Plans are in place for the farm to become a part of the future Tramuntana Mountains nature park, which currently boasts 62,677 hectares.
It was designed by Emili Pou. It was inaugurated on May 15, 1861 as a 6th order lighthouse, with catadioptric optics and fixed light. In 1863 an iron beam roof was installed (the wooden ones were already rotten). In 1866 the launch service was auctioned (as in the other lighthouses that needed this service) and was granted for 584 escudos per year, so that in 1867 the sailors stopped living on the island and moved to Puerto de Alcudia, having to make two weekly trips to the lighthouse, or extra trips if the lighthouse keepers communicated an urgent need by means of the placement of a white flag. In 1917 rotating screens were installed in the optics, having a luminous appearance of 3+1 occultations and producing the luminous focus by means of an acetylene gas burner. The gas was elaborated in the same lighthouse, using for it a gasogen where stones of calcium carbide and water were mixed. In 1922 the roof was replaced by a tiled roof, due to severe infrastructure problems caused by humidity. In 1960, the lantern was removed and a non-visitable lantern was placed in its place, and at that time the solar valve was automated. This was the reason why, the following year, the lighthouse was left without resident personnel. Its luminous appearance then became one of equidistant white flashes. Later, in the nineties, solar panels were installed, which allowed the gas apparatus to be removed. Today, although it retains the old AGA gas lantern, it has a modern 54-watt LED acrylic optic inside. As in many other lighthouses, the lighthouse keepers of Alcanada took an active part in the rescue of the victims of several shipwrecks.
Torrent that flows into a protected area of marshland in Port d'Andratx.
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