Its avant-garde design is the result of a "Competition for ideas for the construction of lighthouses" convened by the General Directorate of Coasts.
Located in the sandy of the Frouxeira its authors are the architect Enrique Martínez Tercero and the engineer Mariano Navas Gutiérrez. The architectural solution is based on a prismatic beacon-tower format common in the lighthouses of antiquity.
It started to work definitively in November 1994 with a range of 23milllas.
Nowadays it is monitored to be controlled by computer from the Control Center of the port of Ferrol.
Curiosities, myths and legends
In the peak of A Frouxeira exist the ruins of a fortress that in the year 1140 was a castle coveted by the Galician nobility as well as by Castilian and Aragonese.
The owner of the castle was a feudal lord, Don Pedro Pardo de Cela who had the reputation of being cruel and bloodthirsty with his subjects, so he had numerous enemies. Among them the very Catholic kings. The fortress was in a strategic and impregnable place so that only the betrayal within its closest circle managed to capture and wax it. His wife moved to the court of the Catholic Monarchs to be granted a pardon, which they did in exchange for keeping all their property and fortress. Back with the pardon her enemies entertained her in what is now known as "The bridge of the pastime" and she could not arrive in time to avoid execution.
It is said that his head shouted "I believe, I believe, I believe" and today is the day that on windy nights you hear those words in the ruins and the fortress.
