50 sights in Moldova
Cave monasteries above the Răut, medieval fortresses on the Dniester, museums and parks in Chișinău and the beech forests of the Codri. Filter by type, region or practical wish, or set a maximum distance.
VideoOrheiul Vechi
A limestone river loop with cave monasteries, Getic strongholds and a Golden Horde town
47.3056° N · 28.9750° E
Cetatea Soroca
A round 16th-century stone fortress at an old ford across the Dniester
48.1612° N · 28.3055° E
VideoMănăstirea Saharna
A pilgrimage monastery in a wooded gorge above the Dniester, with a footprint in the rock
47.6949° N · 28.9651° E
Mănăstirea Țipova
Churches and cells carved into a cliff above the Dniester, with a waterfall nearby
47.6031° N · 28.9848° E
VideoMănăstirea Căpriana
A princely monastery from 1429 in the Codri forests, with the oldest church in the country
47.1161° N · 28.5106° E
Mănăstirea Curchi
Baroque monastery churches in the forests near Orhei, a hospital for forty years
47.3338° N · 28.6531° E
Mănăstirea Hîncu
A convent from 1678 in a wooded valley at the springs of the Cogâlnic
47.0792° N · 28.3219° E
Mănăstirea Japca
The only monastery in Bessarabia that came through the Soviet era without closing
47.9881° N · 28.7111° E
Mănăstirea Noul Neamț (Chițcani)
A monastery for men from 1861 near Bender, founded by monks from Neamț in Romania
46.7877° N · 29.5997° E
Mănăstirea Rudi
A convent on the Dniester with a church from 1777 in medieval Moldavian style
48.3460° N · 27.8917° E
Mănăstirea Condrița
A thick-walled monastery of St Nicholas in a wooded valley, half an hour from the capital
47.0523° N · 28.5659° E
Biserica Măzărache
A church from 1752 on a hill above the spring that gave Chișinău its name
47.0310° N · 28.8490° E
Cetatea Tighina (Bender Fortress)
An Ottoman fortress on the Dniester, refuge of Charles XII and now in Transnistrian territory
46.8374° N · 29.4874° E
Catedrala Nașterea Domnului
The city's neoclassical main church, an exhibition hall in Soviet times
47.0261° N · 28.8345° E
Arcul de Triumf (Poarta Sfântă)
A classical arch from 1840 with a clock and a 6.4-tonne bell cast from captured cannon
47.0247° N · 28.8325° E
Parcul Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt
A city park from 1818 with the statue of Ștefan cel Mare and the Alley of Classics
47.0255° N · 28.8280° E
Parcul Valea Morilor
A 114-hectare Soviet park around a lake, with a cascade staircase of 218 steps
47.0141° N · 28.8107° E
Muzeul Național de Istorie a Moldovei
From the Stone Age to the 20th century in a former boys' grammar school, with the she-wolf at the door
47.0226° N · 28.8281° E
Muzeul Național de Artă al Moldovei
The country's largest art collection, in a restored grammar school by Bernardazzi
47.0218° N · 28.8296° E
Muzeul Național de Etnografie și Istorie Naturală
Moldova's oldest museum, in a building that looks like a Moorish castle
47.0235° N · 28.8208° E
Teatrul Național de Operă și Balet „Maria Bieșu”
Moldova's opera house, named after the soprano Maria Bieșu
47.0279° N · 28.8302° E
Piața Centrală
The capital's busiest market, where the countryside comes to town every day
47.0195° N · 28.8428° E
Complexul Memorial „Eternitate”
Five 25-metre rifles above an eternal flame, the great war memorial of Chișinău
47.0091° N · 28.8324° E
Porțile Orașului
Two stepped residential towers that greet every traveller arriving from the airport
46.9767° N · 28.8710° E
Circul de Stat din Chișinău
A brutalist dome for 1,900 spectators, under restoration again after years of decay
47.0376° N · 28.8485° E
Casa-muzeu „A. S. Pușkin”
The little house where the young Pushkin spent his first months of exile
47.0317° N · 28.8367° E
Grădina Botanică din Chișinău
A hundred hectares of plant collections, roses and glasshouses in the Botanica district
46.9744° N · 28.8852° E
Sala cu Orgă
A former bank with a dome, where an organ with 4,000 pipes has played since 1978
47.0222° N · 28.8350° E
Lumânarea Recunoștinței
A chapel in the shape of a candle, high above the Dniester near Soroca
48.1372° N · 28.3048° E
Dealul Romilor
A neighbourhood of Roma villas with domes, columns and turrets above Soroca
48.1593° N · 28.2927° E
Conacul Manuc Bei
The palace, hunting lodge and lookout tower of an Armenian diplomat, an hour from Chișinău
46.8256° N · 28.5822° E
Rezervația științifică Codrii
Moldova's oldest nature reserve, in the wooded hills of the Codri
47.1118° N · 28.3624° E
Rezervația științifică Pădurea Domnească
Moldova's largest reserve, with European bison, heron colonies and centuries-old oaks
47.6224° N · 27.4170° E
Rezervația științifică Prutul de Jos
A shallow remnant lake of the Danube full of pelicans, herons and water lilies
45.5902° N · 28.1329° E
O sută de movile
Thousands of rounded hills on the Prut terraces, described by Cantemir as early as 1716
47.7751° N · 27.2803° E
Cheile Butești
A gorge of almost two kilometres cut through a fossil reef from a vanished tropical sea
47.7969° N · 27.3371° E
Punctul geodezic Rudi (Arcul geodezic Struve)
Moldova's only UNESCO World Heritage Site: a survey point in an apple orchard
48.3189° N · 27.8767° E
Mănăstirea Hîrbovăț
Monks' monastery from 1730 in the Călărași forests, closed in 1962 and reopened in 1992
47.3334° N · 28.3104° E
Conacul Ralli din Dolna
A boyar house in the Codri where Pushkin stayed for a few weeks in the summer of 1821
47.1253° N · 28.2719° E
Muzeul de Istorie și Etnografie „Dumitru Cara-Ciobanu” din Beșalma
The first museum about the Gagauz, set up in 1966 by a village librarian
46.1731° N · 28.6485° E
Tiraspol (centre)
Soviet monuments along the main street of the capital of unrecognised Transnistria
46.8403° N · 29.6433° E
Mănăstirea Ciuflea (Biserica Sfântul Mare Mucenic Teodor Tiron)
A white church from 1858 with gilded domes, Chișinău's cathedral in Soviet times
47.0126° N · 28.8469° E
Muzeul Satului
An open-air museum on the edge of the city with Moldova's oldest wooden church (1642)
46.9724° N · 28.8737° E
Turnul de apă (Muzeul de Istorie a Orașului Chișinău)
Alexander Bernardazzi's water tower from 1892, now the museum of the city's history
47.0194° N · 28.8224° E
Mănăstirea Călărășăuca
A convent between cliffs and forest on the Dniester, with a hermit's cave in the rock
48.4204° N · 27.8143° E
Mănăstirea Răciula
A convent in the Codri where the bells rang for ten days in 1959 against its closure
47.3074° N · 28.3566° E
Valul lui Traian
Late antique earthen ramparts running right across southern Moldova
45.7641° N · 28.1692° E
Rezervația științifică Plaiul Fagului
Beech forests, lakes and wildcats in a strictly protected reserve in the Codri
47.2957° N · 28.0670° E
Sanatoriul Nufărul Alb (Cahul)
A sanatorium from 1986 that uses Cahul's sulphurous, iodine-rich mineral water
45.9024° N · 28.2046° E
Dealul Bălănești
Moldova at its highest: a wooded summit of 429 metres in the hills of the Codri
47.2169° N · 28.0833° ENothing matches these filters.