This castle reached the second-rank level at the time of the Constable Iranzo, played an important role in taking sides, like Andújar, on the realistic side when in 1465 the king's enemies placed Jaén, and became famous when, six years later, the warden Diego Frías stopped and ordered a rival of the Constable, Don Fernando de Acuña, son of the Count of Buendía and no less than nephew of the Archbishop of Toledo, to be locked in his tower.
In fact, the castle, of small dimensions, was formed by a cylindrical tower with an almond parapet, as Martin drew it from Ximena Jurado. A stone from the upper tower seems to have an inscription, probably Arabic. There is no trace of this tower in the village. However, the head of the church presents a lock that could correspond to the remains of the castle. This solid semicircular wall of masonry could be reused from a large round tower, sister of those of the Rus and El Marmol castles, in the lands of Baeza.
This turret was declared Good of Cultural Interest in 1985.

Location: To the south of the town, in the natural park of Cazorla, Segura and Las Villas.

Distance: 42 km

Medium: By vehicle, by bike and on foot.

Access route:: On the road A-319 towards La Iruela; at this point, after going 13 km, we will take the Chorro road, then turn away by the horseshoe road leading to Puerto Llano.

La Taberna Museo Restaurante Lagartijo, is a charming tavern dedicated to the tauromaquia and opened in March 1980. In it you can taste an excellent traditional cuisine in a tourist-cultural atmosphere decorated with billboards, photographs and taurine objects. In it, culture, tourism and gastronomy are hand in hand in a typical Andalusian environment.

The property consists of two areas. The Taberna, dedicated to tasting tapas and rations, can be found just after entering. In this atmosphere, you can enjoy a typical tavern kitchen, surrounded by many objects dedicated to the tauromaquia, such as photographs, posters and light suits.

In the interior is the Museum and Restaurant Room, which has a select menu of kitchen recipes, with typical and traditional dishes, where the meats, peas, and especially the confected and baked ones stand out.

The hill of the Poyos de la Mesa is an inverted relief in which the dolomies of the Upper Cretaceous and the limestones of the discordant Miocene on them are affected by a sincerity perfectly visible from the north.

The fold is more tight in the older materials (Cretaceous dolomies), and is more open in the discordants (myocene limestones). Both litological sets flare at the top, very steep, of the relief. Between them there is a well-developed canchal, which marks approximately the axial plane of the fold.

Source: Inventory of Georresources of Andalusia. Environmental Council. Junta de Andalusia.

The total power of the section is over 150 m. On a few sucrose dolomies attributed to the lower and medium Jurassic we find materials from the upper Kimmeridgian; they are limeals with large gastropods and corals that end up on an erosive surface with a crusts of iron oxides.

The following are limestones, locally sandy and margas, with various levels of interspersed calcrets; these materials are being decrified and dolomitised, giving way to stoned dolomies with abundant carbonous remains; this whole set of materials is of the age Hauteriviense- Barremiense. The lower Aptiense is characterized by the presence of sands, calcareous sandstone and sandy limestone with laminations and cross stratifications as well as orbitolins at various levels. The materials of the upper Aptiense have abundant rudists and orbitolins. The Albibe is represented by dolomies with black songs and ghosts of rudists.

Source: Inventory of Georresources of Andalusia. Environmental Council. Junta de Andalusia.

This saw welcomes the typical Mediterranean forest, with the rich and typical varied flora and fauna. Areas of pedestal steep, others with typical river vegetation, and the serrana area characteristic of Sierra Morena. As for its fauna, typical of Sierra Morena, we find many species of cynegetic species such as deer, boar, muflon, go, foxes, rabbits, perdices, hares, doves, etc. Its flora is made up of low mountain and native Mediterranean forest of oak, juniper, madroño, acebuchs, alcornoques, torviscos, complaints, rosemary, thyme, pellet, lentils, cornicabra, zarzas; large and large areas of jars, shrubs, some coniferous areas, reduced presence of areas of dehesa, fruit such as pomegranate, fig tree, membranel, typical talleds, chopos, juncos, canyizales and other river vegetation.