The Moldoviţa Monastery is an Orthodox monastery located in the municipality of Vatra Moldoviței, Suceava County and was built in 1532 by Petru Rareș, son of Stefan cel Mare, to…
35km from Sibiu, in Porumbacu de Sus, is the Castelul de Lut overlooking the Valley of the Fairies. We are near the immense Carpathian Mountain range, not far from the famous…
Tiraspol is the capital and main city of the de facto Republic of Transnistria. Tiraspol, although with modern buildings, seems to have come out of old stock photographs. Between a…
Fortress of Bender, or Tighina, was built in 1538 by the Turkish architect Sinan immediately after the unification of the Moldavian principality into the territory of the Ottoman Empire. The…
Bender also known as Tighina is found de facto in the Republic of Transnistria, in the historical region of Bessarabia. By number of inhabitants, it is the second considering only…
From an etymological point of view, Transnistria means “beyond the Dniester”, while Pridnestrovie means “at the Dniester”. The formal name, enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic, is Приднестровская Молдавская Республика in Russian and…