The Clock Tower

The Jaca Clock Tower is situated in the historic city center, in the Marqués de la Cadena Square. It was built in the year 1445 in order to act as a private residence, but in the year 1602 they began to use it as the headquarters of the city´s prisons, and it is now popularly known as the Prison Tower. The building displays a Gothic architectural style, and it is now used as the headquarters of the "Working Community of the Pyrenees". Located next to the tower, you can see also a bronze sculpture of Ramiro I of Aragon.