The village of Radilovo

Radilovo is a village in the south part of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Municipality of Peshtera. Radilovo has ancient history, which began about 5000 years ago. Ancient mounds, old roads, a lot of working equipment, coins and weapons made of stone, copper, bronze and iron were found in the area of the village. It has been known with today’s name since the 15th or the beginning of the 16th century. In his books, Zahari Stoyanov mentions about the energetic participation of the local people in all the organizational and revolutionary activities during the April uprising in 1876. There is an old spring in the surroundings of Radilovo, called Chereshovo kladenche (Cherry well). According to the legend, everyone who is sick and drinks water from the well, and ties a black thread on a near tree, will get better shortly. In 1897 in the village, the Bulgarian journalist and writer Aleko Konstantinov was killed by mistake.