Faro de Llebeig

Viewpoint

It was designed by Eusebi Estada. It was inaugurated on 15-11-1910. It is one of the lighthouses of Sa Dragonera that replaced the old one of Na Pòpia, located on the highest peak of the island. Its appearance began with isolated flashes every 7 seconds, thanks to the use of the then new technology based on the use of mercury float buckets to produce a faster turn of the optics. This meant a drastic change in the beaconing of the island, since the old Na Popia lighthouse had a luminous appearance of flashes every 2 minutes. It was the first signal in the Balearic Islands that used a Chance lamp of incandescence of petroleum vapor, reason why some year later lighthouse keepers of other enclaves like Capdepera or Isla del Aire, had to spend some days in this lighthouse to learn the handling of these lamps, which ended up being the most used in the archipelago.