were dotted all along the coast, pulling the thread until he could confirm that they all came from the same place. However, few plac-es preserved them in such a marked and pure manner as in Ibiza, known as the White Island because of the number of whitewashed houses scattered here and there over its fields. Rolph Blakstad father first visited the island in 1956. He was on an excursion with his friend, the British writer Robert Graves (author of de I, Claudius). They never caught the ship home. It left an impression on them. Instead of a geographical trip, it was a journey in time. ‘My father used to say that it was as if Ibiza had not changed at all since Homer’s days. And to a certain extent he was right’, affirms Rolph son, who is a builder. The first settlements on the islands were founded by the Phoe-nicians and Carthaginians, who exported this type of construction. After the Third Punic War (149-146 B.C.E.) which ended with the © Jon Izeta Una de las creaciones del arquitecto Pep Torres. // One of the creations by architect Pep Torres.