Faro de Tabarca

The lighthouse is located at the highest point of the island and immediately attracts the attention of those who arrived at Tabarca, so the first thing I did was go there.

A rocky path through the cactus thickets led me to the fence that enclosed the vast area around the lighthouse.

Faro de Tabarca was built in 1854 by engineer Agustín Elcoro Berocíbar and is a two-story building with a lighthouse tower above it. The building is made of stone blocks in the neoclassical style. The building once housed a lighthouse keepers ' school. In 1971, a new reinforced concrete lighthouse tower was built nearby, and the old lighthouse stopped working. However, in 1998, the old lighthouse received the status of a cultural heritage site and was restored, and the reinforced concrete tower was dismantled.

At the gate there is an information board where you can read the characteristics of the lighthouse, international index, coordinates, description of light signals (DL L2 OC 6, flash 2 seconds interval 6 seconds), the height of the lighthouse is 14 meters, the height above sea level is 29 meters, the visibility range is 15 nautical miles.

Near the territory of the lighthouse there are ruins of a large stone building.