Destinations
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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Tiraspol Tourist Center
If you’ve crossed the Dniester River into Transnistria seeking adventure, but you’re not sure where to find it, go see the folks at the Tiraspol Tourist Information Center on 135 Sovietskaya Street. Let them know what your interests are — sightseeing, culture, food, crafts, or whatever — and they will help you work out an itinerary. You will discover how eager they…
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Karaman House
When you enter the Karaman House Restaurant, you get the idea you are in a country home built a century ago. And the cooking matches the atmosphere. It consists of traditional Moldovan dishes that are hearty and scrumptious. If you want to learn how to make some, the staff will teach you. To gain an additional feel for local country life, you…
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Kumanek Restaurant
Guests get the feeling they will have a great experience at the Kumanek Restaurant before they even enter because of the atmosphere: It looks like a lodge or rustic country home. The main fare is traditional Ukrainian, which the chefs pour their soul into. Guests are astonished at how huge the menu is, with a range of fresh meat, fish, vegetables, soups…
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Noul Neamt Monastery
One of the joys of touring the Noul Neamt Monastery is that the monks love sharing their ancient crafts-making skills with visitors. The complex is an offshoot of the Neamt Monastery in Romania, so its spiritual traditions are a mixture of Romanian and Slavic. The Noul Neamt has an array of features that make it more intriguing than many Moldovan monasteries. It…
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Tighina Fortress
Also called Bender Fortress, Transnistrian region buffer zone The Ottomans built the fortress after Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent conquered the area in 1538. Also called the Tighina Fortress, it was one of medieval and Renaissance Moldova’s most important landmarks. Sweden’s King Charles XII took refuge in the area after the Russians defeated his forces in the Battle of Poltova in 1709. Ottoman…
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Naslavcea’s spectacular river views
Naslavcea, on Moldova’s northern border, offers the country’s most spectacular views of the Dniester River. The best vantage points are the tops of steep emerald hills rising from the riverbank. The area contains what Moldovans call the Heart of the Dniester — an island in the river shaped like a heart. Nature is incredible away from the river, too. In fact many…
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