Fascination of Moldova (5 days / 4 nights)

Day 1: Arrival

Meeting at the airport. Transfer from airport to Chisinau.

Check in Hotel in Chisinau.

Chisinau city-tour
Visit the main points of attractions - the main street of the capital – Stefan cel Mare, the Central Cathedral, the Chisinau City Hall, pedestrian street, park of Stefan cel Mare.

Day 2: Orheiul Vechi (Old Orhei)

Breakfast in the hotel
Transfer to Curchi monastery

Visit Curchi Monastery - one of the oldest monastery in Moldova. The Summer Church “Nativity of Virgin Mary”was built during1866-187 in baroque style. The cathedral is the highest in Moldova – the middle dome reaching 57 m and being twin with the Synod “Saint Andrew the First Called” of Kiev.

Transfer to Orheiul Vechi

Visit of Orheiul Vechi region, visiting the unique cave monastery (13th cent.), carved in limestone rock - the part of the picturesque landscape. Visiting the house-museum of traditional life of Moldavian farmers (19 century) in the village Butuceni. 

Lunch in the rural pension which includes national Moldovan dishes, home- made wine. You will have a great opportunity to participate in cooking master- class and get acquainted with cooking traditions in Moldova. Together with the locals from countryside you will cook polenta, pies and typical Moldovan desert. 

Transfer to Cricova cellars

Excursion to the unique underground city of the wine "Cricova", where you can stroll through the underground galleries full of wine barrels, see a huge wine cellar (including wines from the Hermann Goering collection), taste fine wine and sparkling wine, created according to the classical technology "Champanoise"

Transfer to Chisinau

Day 3: Transnistria

Breakfast in the hotel
Transfer to Tighina 

Visit to the monument of medieval fortification architecture Bender fortress, the largest fortress in Europe, built by the Turks during their stay here. And today the modern appearance of the fortress is an earthen rampart, a deep ditch lined with limestone, towering towers of the citadel and lower fortifications, fortress walls confirm its former power

Transfer to Tiraspol

Sightseeing tour of Transnistria “capital” – Tiraspol. In Tiraspol you will have the opportunity to travel in time back to USSR. You will start by visiting the monument of Vladimir Lenin and tanks left from the Second World War. The city seems to be a ghost of the Soviet past. 

Lunch in the restaurant “Kumanek” (Ukrainian cuisine)

Excursion to Kvint
Visit the museum of the distillery "KVINT", its production rooms, storehouses with barrels, in which the famous brandies have their rest and the degustation room, where you will try the quality of KVINT´s production

Transfer to Chisinau.

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