Faro de Maspalomas (monument)
Faro de Maspalomas, the Spanish name for Maspalomas Lighthouse, rose from a practical need at the island’s southern edge: it was conceived as an active 19th-century beacon at one end of Maspalomas beach, beside the Maspalomas Dunes. The decision to build here was taken on 19 June 1861, and later, in 1884, engineer Juan León y Castillo was commissioned to design the luminous complex—two main parts linked together: the bullfighter’s house and the tower, working as a single visual and structural unit. Construction ran until 1889, and the lighthouse’s first flash came on 1 February 1890. Today it remains distinctive for scale and signal: it reaches 56 m in masonry height, with a focal height of 60 m above the sea. Its light is visible for 19 nautical miles and is timed as three flashes of white light over a thirteen-second cycle—an unmistakable rhythm for ships approaching Gran Canaria’s south.
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