Faro del Cabo Blanco

Viewpoint | Llucmajor

The project was drafted by Emili Pou. It was inaugurated on August 31, 1863 with a fixed catadioptric optic for a 6th order lighthouse and an olive oil moderator lamp with a wick. In 1883, olive oil was no longer used as fuel, and kerosene from Scotland was used instead. Then, in 1917, rotating screens with clockwork system and mercury float were added to produce a luminous appearance of 3+2 occultations. That same year a gas generator had been installed to produce the acetylene gas with which to illuminate the lighthouse, a system that was removed in 1964 with the installation of the then modern Dalen mixers, also powered by acetylene, but now producing a new appearance of isolated occultations every 5sg. In 1962 the lantern was replaced by another from Racional SA. In 1970 the lighthouse was electrified and a 4th order catadioptric optic was mounted, which is still active today, being the oldest optic placed in a lighthouse in the Balearic Islands, built by Henry Lepaute and installed for the first time in the lighthouse of Artrutx in 1859. The lighthouses of Cap Blanc and Cala Figuera are in charge of beaconing the ends of the Bay of Palma. At the beginning it had, like many other lighthouses, a boat service for the supply, and a road that ran along the cliff was used to carry the fuel up to the lighthouse.