Inaugurated in 1969, this museum is a pioneer of its kind in Spain. Its origin dates back to the 1964 Ibiza Biennale, when its organisers decided that the prize-winning works should form part of the future museum's collection. It also houses a collection of engravings from the Ibigrafic competition, which has been held since 1972. In addition to the Firearms Hall and Almacenes a Prova, its main buildings, there are exhibition spaces inside Dalt Vila's ancient walled enclosure: the Gunpowder Room in the Bastion of Santa Llúcia and the Church of El Hospitalet.
TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS: - Rock creek - Length 60, width 20m - Transparent waters - Low occupancy level - It does not have any type of service for the bather. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: - Parking nearby
Ibiza preserves a cave sanctuary erected in honor of Tanit, goddess of love and fertility to whom the Phoenicians professed great adoration. It is the Cova des Culleram, located in the municipality of Sant Joan de Labritja, in the area of Sant Vicent de Sa Cala in the northeast of the island. Considered one of the most important archaeological sites on the island, Sa Cova des Culleram was studied in 1907 and 600 terracotta figures (possibly votive offerings), a thousand heads of figurines and ceramic fragments were found there. The most remarkable are some flared female figures painted with various symbols and, some of them, with their faces covered by a thin layer of gold. They can be admired in the Museu des Puig des Molins. Sa Cova des Culleram was used from the end of the 5th century to the 2nd century B.C. In 1929 a bronze plaque was found citing the names of Astraté and Tania, the Punic goddess of Ibiza par excellence. It has its viewpoint two hundred meters above sea level, which offers a spectacular panoramic view with the island of Tagomago in the background and can be visited inside.
Known in the past for their agricultural productivity, they were channeled by the Arabs, who established an irrigation system unique in the world at the time based on capillary irrigation. They constitute the second most important wetlands in Eivissa and contain fresh and semi-salty waters that provide a great diversity of fauna and flora. The canals formed small rectangular plots of land called feixes. These channels were connected, every few meters, with other subway channels called fibles through which water circulated. The upper part of the fibles was made of a material that allowed the water to pass through (usually pine branches). In this way, with the use of floodgates, the water level in the channels and, therefore, in the feixa, could be regulated. The entrance to each feixa or plot was made through a very characteristic portal, unique in the world, called portal de feixa, which stands out for its beauty and uniqueness: a huge white lintel with a wooden door. Ses Feixes is divided into three parts: two of them cultivated, called Prat de Vila and Prat de Ses Monjes; and a strip of wetland that joins them, called es Prat.
TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS: - Rock creek - Length 50, width 30m - Transparent waters - Sunbeds and umbrellas for rent. - Low occupancy level ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: - Parking nearby - Chiringuitos on the beach
The farmhouse of Can Ros, with more than 300 years old. It offers a broad view of the Ibicencan culture and allows you to delve into the rural way of life of the island. At the entrance of the house, you will find two typical carts, which were used until only a few decades ago. Today they can only be seen during popular festivals, when parades are organized. Inside you will find an old kitchen, with all the usual utensils, oven, cupboards and fireplace; farming tools, an old oil mill, an introduction to the salt mines, the wine cave, an exhibition of traditional costumes, traditional jewelry, some weapons and a collection of musical instruments, among other objects. It was inaugurated in 1994.
The lighthouse of Sa Conillera is located at the highest point of this island, 69 meters above sea level. Its construction was completed in 1857, although the construction has been modified until it reached its current appearance. The lighthouse of the Conejera, name that receives in Castilian, is located on a building of circular form. Here are concentrated the lighthouse keeper's quarters, his assistant, as well as other rooms for the use of the lighthouse. In 1971 a new optic with a range of 18 miles was installed. The new technology made it possible to remove the lighthouse personnel that resided here until then. The presence of the islet and its lighthouse, visible from the entire bay of Portmany, are part of the landscape and the collective memory of all Ibizans.
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.
The project was drafted by Antonio López y Montalvo. Given the complications involved in the construction of a lighthouse on this islet, no bidder was presented to the auction and the works had to be carried out by the Administration. It was built between 1854 and 1856. It began to operate with a fixed catadioptric optic of 6th order built by the Sautter house, having for the illumination a moderating oil lamp. It was inaugurated on May 1, 1856. As the tower was very low and affected by the spray from the sea, the crystals of the lantern quickly lost transparency and its light could not be appreciated with sufficient clarity in this dangerous passage between Ibiza and Formentera. For this reason, in 1857 it was proposed to change its category to become a 4th order lighthouse, inaugurating its new light on November 30, 1861, although its appearance remained as a fixed white light. In this new project, carried out by Emili Pou, the tower was also raised by five meters. The optics removed was placed in the Botafoc lighthouse which was inaugurated that same night of 1861. Subsequently, the lighthouse became a concealment lighthouse. It seems that the lighthouse keepers acted several times to save the lives of the castaways. In one of those heroic acts, on February 11, 1881, the two lighthouse keepers died while trying to help the crew of the English steamship Flaminian that was making its route between Gibraltar and Genoa. Given the harsh living conditions that the lighthouse keepers and their families, the only inhabitants of this small islet, had to endure, it was the first lighthouse to be automated through the use of the then modern Swedish technology, which used acetylene gas for the operation of a series of lighting systems with automatic ignition by means of a solar valve. As a consequence of this technological incorporation, the lighthouse was left without personnel living on the island since 1929.
It was designed by Pere Garau. It was inaugurated with a catadioptric optic of 25 cm focal length with a 35 mm chance lamp and an appearance of 2+1 flashes every 20 seconds. It was inaugurated on December 1, 1914. Its construction took place as a result of the bad location of the lighthouse of Punta Grossa which it was to replace with definitive character, nevertheless the lighthouse of Punta Grossa would not be extinguished and it was kept working until 1916, when already some beacons had been installed to facilitate the entrance to the port of Cala San Vicente. In 1948 some red crystals were incorporated in the lantern, with the intention of producing a sector of illumination that would point out the Santa Eulalia basin. Subsequently, a beacon was placed on a mirror, but the red sector of the Tagomago lighthouse has continued to be part of its luminous appearance until March 22, 2013. As a result of the 1967 Improvement Plan, the tower was rebuilt, acquiring its current image. The automation of the signal by means of acetylene gas lighting equipment meant the withdrawal of the personnel with permanent residence in the lighthouse. Since then the maintenance of the lighthouse corresponds to the technicians resident in the Botafoc lighthouse.
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