Milesevac - cultural monument

In the very vicinity of Milesevo monastery there are remains of medieval town of Milesevac. It was built at the beginning of Milesevka canyon on the top of a cliff that is accessible only from its southern side. The other three sides of this hill almost vertically slope down and more or less are inaccessible. The town is of irregular shape, surrounded by walls made of stone and mortar with quadrilateral towers in noticeable places. On its southern side there is a suburb where today’s modern rural settlement of Hisardzik is situated. The town had all the elements of a fortress with a suburb, a cult building and a necropolis around it, which are preserved up to nowadays. It was probably erected in the 14th century and it served as a defense of Mileseva monastery and the caravan road passing bellow. Conquered by the Turks in the 15th century it became a Turkish fortress, which they enlarged with the so-called Turkish towers that are clearly identifiable even today. The beauties of architecture, well-preserved walls of this big fortress arouse enthusiasm with every visitor as well as admiration for the builders who carried out this construction in such a wonderful way.
 

Describing the shape and position of the town Milesevac (Hisardzik), a famous Turkish writer Evlija Celebija has recorded:

„ It is a beautiful town on a cliff that rises perpendicularly up to the heavenly garden. This is a solid one-story structure made of stone. But some parts are destroyed due to cannon blows. It has a dozen of towers. Storehouses inside the fort are full of food. There are about twenty decent wooden-roof houses, little Fatih's mosque, a hut, ammunition storage and a nice iron gate that opens to the north. There is also an underground plumbing that serves to secretly supply water from the river… 

Downtown area is not so developed and pretty. It has around sixty different wooden-roof houses, a mosque, an inn, around ten shops and some vineyards and gardens here and there “.
 

The suburb of this medieval town can be reached from Mileseva monastery by an asphalt road while one can climb the town walls by a steep and narrow path that has been preserved since the date of monastery construction till today.