In the back there is a single safetiere set at high height to illuminate the snail staircase that gives access to a terrace. The only inner stay is covered with a shell vault.

Despite the fact that in the 1960s its upper part was decoupled to the level of the surrounding houses, some of which have been joined by two of its sides, it arouses a great interest not only for its own architectural typology but also for the medieval urban scenography it reproduces in the center of the municipality.

On the surface of the plateau there are traces of ancient fortification, possibly a Roman fortress or ibera linked to Oretania.

In the middle of the S. IX, an Arab fortification was built in Sorihuela to defend the left margin of Guadalquivir and as the advance of the Guadalimar River.

In 1235 Fernando III conquered Sorihuela, a small Arab house, giving it as a service to the infant Mr Sancho, Bishop of Toledo, as part of the advance of Cazorla and border to the Muslims. Sorihuela was soon revalued for its proximity to the Montizón road that was communicating Sierra Morena with Castile.

The tower of Tribute was ordered to be built by the Toledo archbishops at the end of the 13th century, taking advantage of the primitive structure of the small medieval castle. This tower guaranteed that the advance would receive the rent of the marzadga that all the inhabitants were to pay to the Archbishopric for their belonging to the Lordship of Toledo as well as the tribute of the plumbing paid by those who intended to free themselves from the service of weapons.

Even at the end of the 16th century he was occupied by a guardian dependent on the warden of Iznatoraf.

The tower of tribute is square of regular masonry placed with yarn and chains on the corners of silery, ready to rope and sawn. The plant has 9.4 meters of side and 13.7 to the almond parapet.

Its construction was to be carried out between the 13th and 14th centuries and over time it was joined by houses of little entity that distorted its image. In 1987 the Cultural delegation of the Junta de Andalucía, in view of its state of advanced deterioration, carried out a restoration for the emergency procedure led by the architect Luis Carlos Gutiérrez Calatrava, which was modelic in terms of its rigor and treatment: consolidation of vaults and construction of roof for the evacuation of water, repair of external and interior locks, replacement of parts and outdoor carpentry and conditioning of the exterior and areas of access.

It was declared Good of Cultural Interest in 1985

Under the shield is a beautiful watch, carved in stone and of elegant bill, which probably gave name to the new construction. It is a clock that at the present time has no function, because of it only its cultivated sphere persists. Clock that would be replaced, surely in the 19th century, by the one we see below the looking body.

Everything seems to indicate, according to the capitular records of the 17th century, that the Clock Tower was an element attached to the royal prison with which it was communicated. On September 12, 1653, he reported that a prisoner had fled through the tower because of the watchmaker's neglect, which is why he would be punished and replaced. Surveillance tower from where the streets and people of Andújar are seen and from where the work rate of their neighbours was marked. At the present time, the Clock Tower is certainly one of the most representative elements of the monumental city of Andújar and part of the morphology of the square of Santa Maria.

On the west front and at half height we find the imperial shield of Charles V and a watch carved in stone. In the first ornamental element, a bicephalous eagle carries the imperial crown and the gold Toison borders the shield. In the right canton the lineage of the Trastámara and the Habsburg and in the sinister of the House of Avís, which correspond to Charles V and his wife Isabel of Portugal, respectively. His presence is due to the coincidence of the execution of the work with the reign of Charles V, for it was customary at the time to leave witness to the reigning monarch in the new constructions. An imperial shield that reminds the Andujareans of their fidelity to the monarch in the years of the war of the Communities, as part of the Junta de las Ramblas. It was not in that same view his mayor, Francisco de Vergara, who "had sympathy for the Communists, and knew the city of the management he brought with them, was so outraged, that in the middle of Cabildo he took away the rod of justice." From the loyalty and obedience of the city the emperor was very pleased and proof of this was the letter he sent on July 20, 1520, from the city of Ipres, in which he thanked the city's attitude towards his person at those difficult times.

The only documentary source that exists today on this construction is on its west front and says: "The great knight Francisco / Alarcón twenty-four of Granada and his major mayor Sancho Díaz / Baeza, who is the king of this city, is now the only one who has been the author of this city. Mayordomo Alonso Yáñez."

At its base is the Municipal Tourism Office, from where you can access the Panoramic Mirador.

The Clock tower, built in the late 14th century, is about 12 meters high. It sits on a stone socket, it is quadrangular, its silvery is not entirely regular, it is distributed internally on four levels, it conserves the almenate and also, on two of its faces, balconies with the function of matacan; on another, matacan ménsulas; while on the north-west one has been placed a named watch, where the matacan and its ménilas were first located.

In 1985 it was declared Good of Cultural Interest.