In 1860 the engineer Celedonio de Uribe was commissioned to draft this fact because at that time it was considered that the port of Cedeira could serve as a refuge in case of a storm. It would be a sixth-order headlamp, a feature reserved for the entry-to-port lights.
Its simple typology is well suited to the most common solution for other buildings of the same period and lower lights such as Suances, San Vicente de la Barquera, Cudillero, San Cibrao, Louro, Cee and Arousa, among others.
The small lighthouse with its white lantern goes into operation on July 15, 1862 with a range of 9 miles.
With the construction and commissioning of the lighthouse of tip Candieira from 1954, it is without personnel and as an added to the service of the new light. With the abandonment came the deterioration and although it was repaired only took advantage of half of what was built in the s. XIX.
It is currently electrified and automated with a range of 11 miles to mark the stones of the Middle Sea located on the opposite bank and against the population of Cedeira.
Curiosities, myths and legends
The following story is included in the book "El vuelo de Ibis" by José Rey Ximena.
On 1 June 1943 a squadron of Nazi Junkers overturned a civil aircraft on the coast of Cedeira. They were traveling on the 777 flight, 17 passengers, one of them was Lesli Howard, the British heartthrob protagonist of the film "What the wind took." The flight from Lisbon to Bristol took the actor back to his country after completing a secret mission. At the request of the British premier Winston Churchill and given the old relationship he had with the actress Conchita Montenegro, who was now engaged to the Spanish Falange diplomat Ricardo Giménez Arnau, he moved to Madrid to ask Franco to stay out of World War II.
Not that the German pilots made a mistake, is that the secret was not such a secret, the high command of the Third Reich had commissioned them to kill the British actor.
