Moscarter Lighthouse

Parks and Nature | Sant Joan de Labritja

It was designed by Fernando Moscardó and Rafael Soler. Although the works were auctioned in 1974, they did not begin until 1975 due to different administrative problems. It has the particularity of being the lighthouse with the highest tower of the Balearic Islands, 52 meters up to the focal plane. It began working with an electric lighting by means of lamps of sealed beam, inaugurating this type of lighting in the Balearic Archipelago. It represents the typical lighthouse of the seventies projected as a result of the Improvement Plan of the year 1967, with a concrete tower and without a building with housing for the Maritime Signal Technicians, since it already began with an automatic operation. Since its inauguration, on November 1, 1978, its maintenance has been carried out by the technicians residing at the Botafoc lighthouse. The lantern is from Racional S.A., 2.25 m in diameter. The considerable height of its tower made advisable the installation of a forklift inside it, to facilitate the technicians the transport of material to the lighthouse lantern. It currently has two electronic motors which no longer need a mercury tank, as was the case with those installed with the initial equipment.