‘Kratovo’s towers’

Kratovo is a small town with narrow and steep streets, several bridges and six medieval defensive towers.
Today's series is about those old towers.
Every photo shows one, sometimes maybe only a glimpse of it.
Some towers appear in more than one of my photos. I don't have a picture of all six.

The towers were built to create a defensive wall for the Turkish army. They were connected with tunnels and underground corridors.

These tunnels are not open to visitors. Nor have I been able to enter a tower. Sometimes, however, that turns out to be possible. I wasn’t lucky.
There is a cafe in town that provides access to an underground corridor. I was there but you could only walk about 50 meters through a damp tunnel carved into the rock. I have a very insignificant photo of that tunnel.

The most famous tower is the Saat or Clock tower. It’s located in the centre of Kratovo … and has no clock at all :)
Other towers are the Simiceva tower, the Emin-Bey, the Zlatkova, the Krsteva and the Hadzi-Kostova tower.
The main photo was taken late in the afternoon.

For the diehards of TE who look each time in the WS:
today four photos.

Here I had a beautiful light.

The roof of the house at the bottom center was an unbelievably bright red. I made it a little less red or it distracted too much from the tower.

A glimpse through the foliage from a nearby hill.

For the TE members who like to see other people at work :)

One of the old stone bridges leading to the street with the Clock Tower.