The lookout tower stands in the immediate vicinity of the Slovenian-Polish state border above the village of Lenartov, in the locality of Kráľova studňa. The lookout tower has 4 floors and is 14 metres high, making it the highest in the Bardejov district. It was built by members and sympathizers of the Kráľova studňa Civic Association from Lenartov. At the lookout tower you will find tables, benches with a fireplace and a well, whose name is, as otherwise, the King's Well with a quality source of drinking water. The history of this place is very interesting and "royal".
At the end of the 19th century a trade route from Poland to Galicia led through the Lenartov district. The ruins of the King's Well inn, which belonged to one of the several stops, remind us of the memento. History states that in 1471, the then King of Hungary Matthias Corvinus and King Kažimir IV of Poland met in this area. Jagiellonian and his son St. Kažimir, who is still the patron saint of Poland today. In Polish literature it is also said that it is the well of the three kings.
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