Description
The so-called Torre de Caligula, a semicircular turret of the old castle, is preserved in the parish church.
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.
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