A clock tower offering people panoramic views of their town could soon open its doors for the first time in seven years.

The bell is the smallest of six at the Old Village church, and was handed to the congregation ... a structural part of the bell which mechanism which takes its full weight every time it is rung.

Xavier Pallas plants his feet on the belfry floor, grips the rope, and with one tug fills the lush Spanish valley below with the reverberating peal of a church bell. Clang-clong! Clang-clong!