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"The central market has since 1825 been the place where Moldovans haggle over prices for fresh produce. It's well worth a visit for its choice of fresh food and lively ambience. It sprawls out around the central bus station on Str Bendery, and Str Armeniasca. There's always something going on here at all times of the day or night."
Jewish Chisinau
 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

One Day in Chisinau

There's a lot Chisinau for 1 day:

You have a short amount of time and want to see the main sights of the city in just one day? Or you love challenge? Or, ahm, whatever makes you have a race around the city , this is the route we propose taking to see a lot on your way .

To get around the city is best by foot and public transport

After enjoying the view of our terrace (Italian old green street style) walk up the street Banulescu-Badony up to the street Columna. You pass just two crossroads. On the left you can see the Town Florist  24/24.You need to cross the road!  We hope you are not so tied, because it takes you only 5 minutes. Now you are in the main position.  Begin to have a fun in the centre, where two Chisinau's best-known parks diagonally oppose each other, representing two diamonds at the city's core. Here are the most well-known highlights of the city - the Holy Gates(1841),more commonly known as the Chisinau's Arc de Triumph. Behind of this place the Cathedral Park is dominated by the city's main Orthodox Cathedral(1836) with it’s lovely bell tower. After you can see the huge building of the Government House,  that is situated opposite the Holy Gate.

 

If you face the Government House, please turn right ! Now go back to the street Banulescu-Badony and cross the road. Walk straight and from the right-hand you can see the Presidential Palace, situating next to the Opera & Ballet Theatre .Opposite it the Parliament convenes in Parliament House ( the building of the former Central Communist Party committee). From the left-hand you will see the large Cinema Patria, built by German prisoners of war in 1947, and still showing films, which is situated in the northeast section of the Stefan cel Mare Park (1928)  .The  Stefan cel Mare Park is the city's main place for strolling and cruising. Following the Cinema Patria you will pass by a Classick’s Alley (free wi-fi zone). At the end you will see the beautiful fountain and the Pushkin's monument (this is one of the first monuments of the great Russian poet).

Ok, now across the Park diagonally to the Stefan cel Mare statue. The medieval prince is the greatest symbol of Moldova's strong, brave past. Every Moldovan will be happy to tell you that during Stefan's 40-years reign, he lost merely two battles (somewhere from 37 to 47).

Now you are on the Stefan cel Mare Boulevard - which length is 3.8 kilometers. Now you can cross the square ( from the left-hand the Holy Gates ,from the right-hand the Government House) and walk straight up to the Organ Hall (it was built in the beginning of the XX century by engineer M. Cherekuli-Kush for the city bank).

The sight of the centre is the Organ Hall located on the odd side of the street. On the right of the Organ Hall, there is the building of the National Drama Theatre. There is an open exhibition between them. On the left, there is a beautiful building of City Hall, and in front of it you can see the central post office. Now we can look round to see the part of the avenue where we have already walked.

If you wanna take a nice and interesting walk, just walk on the main street until the Tighina street. Turn right and walk until the 31 August street  . Here you can also take a look at small open-air military exhibition displays Soviet-made tanks, fighter planes and other military equipment.

After go two blocks up the Mateevici street. Then turn left and walk one block up to the Ismail street. Here is the Prison Fortress.

Bounded by the A.Mateevici street and Str Ismail the Memorial Park is dominated by the Victory Memorial of the Soviet army in 1945. An eternal flame burns in the centre in the memory of Chisinau's unknown soldiers who died in WWII. Soldiers' graves are situated along the boundaries of the park and there is a small military cemetery at its northern end. In the centre of the park is a memorial devoted to those who died during the fight for Moldovan independence in the early nineties. At the far northern end of the park is the civil cemetery, known locally as the Armenian cemetery, it’s main entrance is on the corner of Str.A.Mateevici and Str.Armeneaska. The blue and silver-domed All Saints Church in the centre of the cemetery dates 1830.

At the south of the cemeteries, on the corner of Str P.Halippa and Str Vasile Alecsandri, is another Soviet memorial, with a small market opposite it.

 

"In any case you have a tongue and you have your ears, so you can ask and you can hear. If you lose your way you can ask about your route anybody, saying only the name of street and they can show you how to reach it. Don’t be ashamed or afraid. In our country people are very kind and hospitable. In any way they will try to help you. It’s a tradition of many hundreds years and this feature is in their blood. So you are well-come!"

"My own city, you're a flower of stone,
That's washed upon by soft and sunny rain,
Like winds, by ages you are blown,
Like song of youth, you come to me again"

Holy Gates

Orthodox Cathedral

 

Cathedral Park

Cathedral lovely bell tower

 

Presidential Palace

Opera&Ballet Theater

Parliament House

Stefan cel Mare Park

Classick’s Alley

 

Cinema Patria

 

Stefan cel Mare Boulevard

Ñentral Post Office

Organ Hall

 

Air military exhibition

Prison Fortress

Tower

Victory Memorial