TETOVO

Tetovo at Night Tetovo is a town lying at the foothills of the Sar Mountains, with an altitude of 468m above sea level. This town has a well-developed textile and clothing industry, and a massive plant for the production of chromium and ferrosilicon. The comparative advantage of the Polog valley have been well used for the development of agriculture, especially market-gardening and fruit growing. More recently, Tetovo has become a centre of private business and trade. Countless small shops have been opened where one can buy almost everything.
Tetovo is a quaint and a lovely town, whose broad streets twist between ample konaks and green luxuriant gardens irrigated by numerous streams. Everywhere the textures and colours detain the eye: the choppy ripple of russet tiles, the rough flakiness of outer walls topped by peaked roofs and set with grilled apertures and studded door, rutted streets duned with ochreous dust, the scraped pinks and jean blue of house walls and shutters... Tetovo is a tobacco town, and in late summer when the crop is picked the women crouch in rows on the verandas, in the wine-eaved shadows, to grade and string the leaves on wires. Sometimes the whole family gets down to it. Tetovo As each wire is completed, it is strung in a wooden frame. In August and September the whole town is decorated with garlands of tobacco festooned at he edges of streets, on frames leaning against walls and strung in row upon row, along the sides of houses like the shirred silk curtains of Venetian palaces.
The Monastery of Lesok with the churches of St. Atanas and of the Holy Virgin, from the 14th century, is situated near Tetovo. In honour of the educator Kiril Pejcinov, this monastery hosts an International Meeting of Literature Translator's. Tetovo is also the host to the Festival of Macedonian Choirs.
The well-known ski resort of Popova Sapka lies above Tetovo in the Sar Mountains, and is linked to the town by a road and a cable railway.

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