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Afghanistan War Memorial Park
This park is dedicated to the 301 Moldovans who died in the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistna’s anti-Communist mujahideen forces in the 1980s. The park’s centerpiece is a memorial to the fallen Moldovans, who were among 15,000 Soviet soldiers killed in the conflict. The memorial’s design is stark, consisting of four sloped sides – like the legs of a chair…
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Riscani Park
Riscani is a double-tiered park. The high ground contains broad-leafed trees and the low ground firs. You will find great views of Chisinau from the high ground. The park is long and narrow, its 32 hectares stretching three kilometers along Dimo Street. One of its four lakes contains a boat dock and sandy beach. An unusual feature is a public archery range….
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Dendrarium Park
Dendrarium Park may be Chisinau’s most beautiful, with its trees, shrubs and flowers screaming with every hue imaginable in summer. Pinks, yellows, oranges, greens – you name it. Durlesti Creek runs through the 78-hectare (92-acre) grounds, which not only contain Moldovan flora, but vegetation from 50 other parts of the world. Those who love the park say it is even more spectacular…
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Valea Trandafirilor (Rose Valley) Park
Valea Trandafirilor is an oasis near the center of Chisinau, with three natural lakes, rose gardens and lots of trees. Exercise enthusiasts love jogging or bicycling around the lakes, one of which has a swimming beach. Another enjoyable pastime is gliding across the water on paddleboats, including some that kids will love because they look like giant swans or locomotives. You’ll also…
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Ștefan cel Mare si Sfint Public Garden
Ștefan cel Mare si Sfint, which opened in 1835, is Chisinau’s oldest park. Its designers gave it a French look, with flower gardens, more than 1,000 acacia trees and two fountains. If you love literature, you will appreciate the 28 busts of the Bessarabian Era’s most famous writers and poets lining the Avenue of Classics. Bessarabia was a region the Russians took…
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Cathedral Park
Marii Adunari Naționale Square Cathedral Park, located in the heart of the city, is more than 180 years old. All eight of its entrances lead to the Church of the Nativity. Another park landmark is Chisinau’s version of Paris’s Arch of Triumph. Nearby is the statue of Moldova’s most famous king, Stephan cel Mare. The park is a relaxing place to walk,…
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Valea Morilor (Mill Valley) Park
Valea Morilor Park in Chisinau’s Buiucani area includes a manmade lake, a cascading water stairway and 218-step pedestrian staircase. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev ordered the park built in 1950. During Soviet times it was called the Leninist Youth Central Park of Culture and Rest. It is now one of residents’ and visitors’ favorite Chisinau parks. You can rent kayaks and canoes on…
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Barza Albă Cognac Distillery
Located in the North of Moldova, in the heart of Balti city, the “Barza Alba” Divine Factory was founded in 1944. The name “Barza Albă” comes from a beautiful legend, according to which, in the time of Stephen the Great, a herd of noble storks carrying bunches of grapes in their beaks, which they let fall inside the citadel, saved the defenders…
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Museum of the Bottle
You get a hint of what this museum is about before you enter because the building is shaped like a giant bottle. Once inside, you’ll know your hunch was right. The museum contains more than 20,000 bottles of alcoholic beverages from more than 170 countries. You’d be right if you guessed that its owner, Grigorii Corzun, is a character. He built the…
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