MEDIEVAL TOWER – TESHOVO

The tower is located in the center of the village. According to the stories told by local residents centuries ago the tower had seven floors.

It has a square plan with a side of 7.50 m and height of 13.50 m. Built on a rocky terrain by broken, semi-stones. The bond is of white mortar. The entrance of the tower is made of well-cut stone blocks. Inside the floors were made of wooden beams. On the southern, eastern and western facade there are warriors, and in the embankment are found bricks from heating facilities.  The tower is supplied with water that has been brought up to the top floor. There are pipes and sewage, wider than the other.

Scientists have not yet given a single answer what its purpose was.

According to some, the tower served as a Turkish clerk-dwelling and for storage of ore, iron bars and cannon balls. Others say it was a watchtower with alarm and communication functions. 

There was a similar tower between the villages of Gaitaninovo and Paril to the south and to Momina Tower / Gotse Delchev / to the north, where light signals alarmed for danger and prompted the inhabitants of the village to hide in the tower.  From the middle of the nineteenth century, the tower gradually began to crumble, as the stones were used for the construction of the St. Dimitar Church and the neighboring houses, and in 1970 for the building of the village oven. The tower is declared a cultural monument.