Faro Tramuntana

Viewpoint

Built on the highest peak of Sa Dragonera. At first Eusebio Estada considered the option of establishing a simple permanent light mounted on a metal turret and attended by the same staff of the lighthouse at the other end of the island in Cap Llebeig, but finally the criterion was adopted to build a lighthouse with a house whose project was in charge of Miguel Massanet. It was inaugurated on 15-11-1910. Being a lighthouse that did not require much luminous range, it used a simple Maris lamp with one wick, and the lighthouse was maintained by a single lighthouse keeper. In 1925 the lighthouse keeper assigned in this signal died and his wife had to take charge of the service during that night until the following day one of the lighthouse keepers of the Llebeig lighthouse could come to his aid. At the beginning of the 20th century it was very frequent the use of some coves of Sa Dragonera for the traffic of contraband, reason why the lighthouse keepers of Llebig and Tramontana had to testify in several trials celebrated in this respect. The original optics were removed in 1960 to make way for an automatic acetylene lighting system. The lighthouse was left without the constant permanence of the technician in 1961 and the Llebeig lighthouse keepers became responsible for its maintenance. The removed optic was placed later (1965) in the lighthouse of Portocolom where it is still in service.