Until the mid-tifties Pesbawar was enclosed within a city wall and sixteen gates. Of the old city gates the most famous was the Kabuli Gate but only the name remains now. It leads out to the Khyber and on to Kabul.

You come across two-and-three storeyed houses built mostly of unbaked bricks set in wooden frames to guard against earthquakes. Many old houses have beautifully carved heavy wooden doors and almost all have highly ornamental wooden balconies.

There is a tall and broad structure whose lofty portal look down upon the street .This historic building house the police office and the site was occupied centuries ago by a Buddhist stupa. then by a Hindu temple and then by a Mughal serai. It was, in Sikh days, the seat of General Avintable. an Italian soldier of fortune in service of Rantit Singh.

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