A country · 38 places · 13 regions
Moldova, all of it.
38 curated places across 13 regions — photographed, mapped, and noted with the season each is best in.
The 4 biggest regions — Chișinău Municipality, Bender Municipality, Rezina District and Soroca District — read below as chapters, with 9 more waiting past them.
Chapter I · Chișinău Municipality · 12 places
Chișinău Municipality
One of the world's largest underground wineries, a labyrinth of tunnels carved from former limestone mines. Visitors tour its cellars by car past streets named for the wines they store.
via Wikimedia CommonsChapter II · Bender Municipality · 2 places
Bender Municipality
This large star-shaped fortress on the bank of the Dniester was built in the sixteenth century by Ottoman engineers to guard a strategic river crossing on a contested frontier. Its earthworks, bastions and stone gates enclose a citadel that changed hands repeatedly between empires over the following centuries. Much of the fortification survives, and parts are open as a museum with exhibits on the armies that held it. Visitors walk the ramparts for views over the valley.
✦ May–September · $
Chapter III · Rezina District · 2 places
Rezina District
A monastery complex tucked into a wooded Dniester-valley gorge with a rocky trail leading past waterfalls to a hillside chapel. Pilgrims come for the cliff-carved cells and a reputed sacred footprint in the stone.
via Wikimedia CommonsChapter IV · Soroca District · 2 places
Soroca District
A compact round medieval fortress on the bank of the Dniester River, built to guard Moldova's northern frontier. Its concentric stone walls and towers are among the best-preserved of their kind in the region.
✦ May to September · $
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