City bell tower with a clock was built in 1444 by local masters Grubačević, Utišenović and Radonić, and with its 31 meter is together with fort Minčeta and Orlando statue one of the free city-state liberty symbols. Painted Sundial with two wooden jacks in the form of the soldiers that strike the hour (Maro and Baro) was work of Luka, the son of the admiral Miho Žugović. A few years later sundial were replaced by watch with numbers and famous wooden jacks were repaced by bronze ones as a faithful copy, all made by Dubrovnik's painter Matko Junčić. A famous founder Ivan Rabljanin's new bell from 1509 with printed text of Lampridij Crijević was damaged in 1667 earthquake, so when threaten to fall down, was replaced with faithful replica in 1929.

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