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The Clock Tower of Botevgrad, built in the period 1862-1864, is one of the few architectural monuments of the city saved from the period of the National Revival. The architect of the building is unknown, but the name of the clockworker is known - Vuno Markov. It is the highest of the clock towers in Bulgaria.

It was raised on a proposal from Midhad pasha – a french and a local governor in serve at the Ottoman court. The tower is decorated with blue frescoes including architectural elements and characteristics of the old Koprivshtitsa and Plovdiv Revival houses, but the shape of the dome clearly reminiscents of a Muslim mosque. For the construction were used stones from quarries near the village Bojenitsa and timber extracted from near the village Vrachesh. The tower consists of three proportions, and its overall height is 30 meters and the base is square, each side of which is five meters.

Wooden staircase leads to the clock mechanism, designed and built by theironmonger Gencho Nakov – Kantardzhiyata from Botevgrad (back in that time the town was called Orhanie). Every hour, by a special mechanism a hammer hits the special copper bell clock, created by the renowned artist at that time – Lazar Dimitro of Bansko. The original clock is kept in the museum of Botevgrad, and the one that is placed in the tower was built by masters from Etara. It is an exact replica of the original clock.

Here are some little known facts about the tower. Very often the inventors of watches remain unknown. It is assumed that the first mechanical clock was made by the French monk Gerbert, that since 999 to 1003 AD ascended the Papal throne under the name Sylvester II.

And more: the pendulum clock, as the one in Botevgrad, was developed by Christian Huygens in 1656, which uses the idea of Galileo Galilei. This kind of clocks remained the most accurate tools for time reporting until 1930. They must be fixed straight to work correctly. Today, most of them are with decorative or antique value. But even now the Botevgrad clock continues to run.

The local people said that at the window of the tower every hour poped out a doll with a turban, which was removed and burned after the Liberation of Bulgaria.

In the past, clock towers have had an important role for the simple reason that until the middle of the twentieth century, most of the people didn’t have watches.