Vitiviniculture is a thousand-year long custom in our country. Since the very discovery of wine-making from juicy grapes, this beverage brings joy and perfect mood.
Republic of Moldova is acclaimed as a country with developed practices of vitiviniculture, placing it among the most important wine countries of the world. Our wines, spirits, sparking wines have been bestowed with hundreds of acclaimed awards at international exhibitions and contests. Our beverages are popular in more than 55 countries.
Moldovan wine-makers have developed and produce ...
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Moldova was voted by the “Lonely Planet” readers as the number one country “off the beaten path” in Europe. You never know what you will find here. Certainly not the highest mountain or the deepest sea, nor even the longest river, but here are many interesting facts no one ever expected to see:
The least explored destination in Europe, according to “Lonely Planet”
The history of Wine of Moldova starts in 3000 BC, while the first vines were recorded here 7000 years BC. The authenticity and uniqueness of Moldovan wines is represented by th...
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Chisinau is the capital of the Republic of Moldova. According to historical documents, the community was mentioned for the first time in 1466, in a charter of Stefan cel Mare, who sold a small property to Vlaicu Parcalab for 100 Tatar golden coins. Vlaicu Parclab descendants sold it to a boyar called Dragos, for 500 golden coins. Up to 1641 Chisinau was owned by several boyars and starting 1641 – by Iasi monasteries. Located on the commercial way Iasi-Tighina-Crimea, Chisinau became under the reigning of Vasile Lupu a trade and manufacture centre that connected the East with the Vest.
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Rural tourism in Moldova sees its brisk deployment, with new households ready to receive tourists established year by year. All this is possible because Moldova has managed to preserve its originality and peculiar life-style able to express its rich culture, customs and rites of the nations residing in this country.
Rural tourism complexes are mainly represented by households run on the basis of ordinary peasant houses. Despite the seemingly obsoleteness of a house, visitors are sure to enjoy all necessary facilities: heating, comfortable furniture, bathroom. The hosts are going t...
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55 Orthodox Sacred Cloisters are opened in Moldova as of yet: 22 monasteries and 6 cloisters for monks, 24 monasteries and 2 cloisters for nuns, and 1 monastery for Old-Believers. The territories of present-day Moldova have been historically attracting people of faith who believed this land to be consecrated. To the turn of XVIII century the country saw more than 30 monasteries and cloisters opened.
Every cloister has a proper history that can reveal multiple captivating events. All the cloisters are located in the most picturesque places of Moldova, in deep forests or onto mount ...
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First Natalia Sicard’s Museum was opened in Moldova in the year 1876 in Vadul-lui-Voda resort settlement close to Chisinau. The museum exhibited a rich collection of antique items from Egypt, Italy, Greece and other countries.
In 1880s Ion Suruceanu, scientist acclaimed worldwide, established Pont Scythian’s Museum in Chisinau. The collection of this museum was replenished with exhibits from the deposits of Natalia Sicard. By the turn to ХХ century, Ion Suruceanu’s and Natalia Sicard’s Museums were abolished. In the year 1889 Bessarabia’s Zemstvo Museum was established on the basi...
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Moldova’s natural resources attract fans of ecologic tourism into the country. Moldova has hills as if the masterpiece created by nature; one may admire springs, rivers, lakes (there are more than 4 thousand), forests, rocks, canyons – all these landscapes could be encountered in Moldova. While the task of tourism agencies is to facilitate communication with the wild upon organising trekking and hiking tours, fleeting tours and recreation activities in the open.
Natural opulence must be protected: on 1st of March 1904 Doctor of Zoology and one of the founders of Bessarabia’s Zems...
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The celebration of Easter begins with the liturgy in church. It begins in the middle of the night in every church of Moldova. We recommend you to come earlier or you will stay outside because at this very night all the churches are overcrowded.
Every year the Gracious Fire is brought from Jerusalem to Moldova in the Holy Night. Officials of the country, priests and common people wait for the fire in the central cathedral in Chisinau. The candles are lit from this very fire brought from Jerusalem. Then, the candles, as the symbols of faith and blessing go to many other churches, monasteries, and houses of Moldova. After the end of t...
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Monastery “Dormition of the Mother of the God”, Capriana
The encyclopaedia “Literature and Art of Moldova” (edition of the year 1985) provides a reference that Capriana Monastery was founded during the reign of Alexandru cel Bun (1399-1432), and got reconstructed by Stefan cel Mare (years of reign 1457-1504) prior to the year 1470 that is usually considered its foundation. In the monastery they tell that the cloister was supervised by Alexandru cel Bun and Stefan cel Mare since 1420s.
It is also known that in 154...
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Monastery “Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary”, Curchi
The monastery was established in the years 1773-1775 by Boyar Iordache Curchi from Marazini settlement onto the lands that once belonged to his grandfather. At first, the principle temple of the cloister was a wooden church. Yet, to the turn to XIX century a marvelous temple was erected that remained for long span the highest temple in Moldova (32 metres). There are suppositions that the temple was constructed by the project of the great architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli. In the year 1811 a seminary was opened b...
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