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It seems like, even before the building of Espichel Cape lighthouse, it was kindled a fire here to guide the sailors. In 1428 already existed the shrine of N. Sra. do Cabo (Our Lady of the Cape). In 1430, began the pilgrimages, and the brotherhood built one beacon, predecessor of the current lighthouse, which dates from 1790, making it one of the oldest of the Portuguese coast. In 1865, it was powered by 17 oil lamps that guaranteed a luminous range of 13 nautical miles. In 1886, its light began to be fueled by oil vapor glowing and in 1926 for electricity.
The headlamp is 32 meters height, altitude of 168 meters and a range of 28 nautical miles.
From the top of the tower admire a powerful landscape as the barbaricum promontorium - name given to this cape by geographers of antiquity, as Strabo and Ptolemy - clashing with the ocean and important part of Portuguese coast is, in itself, a unique experience worth the 135 steps of stone and 15 iron steps that you need to climb to get there.