18 Sights in Chișinău Municipality, Moldova (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Chișinău Municipality, Moldova. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 18 sights are available in Chișinău Municipality, Moldova.
Sightseeing Tours in Chișinău Municipality1. Nicolae Iorga
Nicolae Iorga was a Romanian politician who held top posts, including Prime Minister and president of the Senate. He was also a historian, literary critic, memoirist, albanologist, poet and playwright. Co-founder of the Democratic Nationalist Party (PND), he served as a member of Parliament, President of the Deputies' Assembly, and cabinet minister. A child prodigy, polymath and polyglot, Iorga produced an unusually large body of scholarly works, establishing his international reputation as a medievalist, Byzantinist, Latinist, Slavist, art historian and philosopher of history. Holding teaching positions at the University of Bucharest, the University of Paris and several other academic institutions, Iorga was founder of the International Congress of Byzantine Studies and the Institute of South-East European Studies (ISSEE). His activity also included the transformation of Vălenii de Munte town into a cultural and academic center.
2. Constantin Brâncuși
Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century and a pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. As a child, he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1905 to 1907. His art emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of representational art. Brâncuși sought inspiration in non-European cultures as a source of primitive exoticism, as did Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, André Derain, and others. However, other influences emerge from Romanian folk art traceable through Byzantine and Dionysian traditions.
3. Red Mill (1873)
The building of the former steam mill, colloquially called Red Mill, is a non-functional steam mill, architectural monument of local value located on the street with the same name in Chisinau. The building is included in the Register of monuments of history and culture of Chisinau municipality, compiled by the Academy of Sciences. It was built in the late nineteenth – early twentieth centuries, in eclectic style. Once one of the tallest buildings in the historic area of Pushkin Hill, it was part of an industrial complex, but now it has remained alone, isolated from related constructions.
4. Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ's Nativity
The Nativity Metropolitan Cathedral is an Orthodox cathedral in Chişinău near the Great National Assembly Square and belongs to the Moldovan Orthodox Church. The cathedral building is an architectural monument of national significance, entered in the Register of monuments of history and culture of Chisinau municipality at the initiative of the Academy of Sciences. The first radio station in Chisinau, Radio Bessarabia, was officially inaugurated by transmitting the liturgy from the Metropolitan Cathedral on October 8, 1939.
Wikipedia: Catedrala Mitropolitană din Chișinău (RO), Website
5. Mihai Eminescu National Theater
The National Theatre "Mihai Eminescu" from Chisinau begins its history on October 10, 1920, when the first stable theatre of expression Romanian in Bessarabia was founded at the initiative of a group of leaders of the local public life of the time, headed by Sergiu T. Niță, Minister of Bessarabia in the Romanian Government, Stefan Ciobanu, member of the Romanian Academy, writers: Nicolae N. Beldiceanu, Nicolae Beldiman, Leon Donici and director Gheorghe Mitu Dumitriu.
Wikipedia: Teatrul Național „Mihai Eminescu” din Chișinău (RO), Website
6. Muzeul Zemstvei
The zemstva museum, included in the Register of architectural monuments under the name "The building of the former orphanage, later the government of the Bessarabian Gubernial zemstva", is a historical building located in Chisinau, on 103 Alexei Şciusev Street. It is an architectural and historical monument of national significance, introduced in the Register of monuments of history and culture of Chisinau municipality at the initiative of the Academy of Sciences.
7. Biserica Sfântul Mucenic Haralambie
The Church of the Holy Martyr Haralambie is a place of worship and architectural monument of national significance, entered in the Register of monuments of history and culture in Chisinau. It was built in 1836. A lapidary inscription inside it with the year 1812 testifies to a possible older stage in the history of the church. It was the readership of the merchant Haralambie, whose name for a long time carried the street in front of the church.
Wikipedia: Biserica Sfântul Mucenic Haralambie din Chișinău (RO)
8. Rabbi Tsirelson Synagogue Ruins
The Rabbi Tirilson Synagogue is an architectural monument of local significance, included in the Register of monuments of history and culture of Chisinau. The church is named after Yehuda Leib Tsirelson, a Jewish theologian, who served as Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Bessarabia between 1908–1941. The building was severely damaged by an earthquake.
9. Memorial to Victims of Stalinist Repression
The Train of Pain – Memorial to Victims of Stalinist Repression is a monument in Chișinău, Moldova. A temporary stone was unveiled in 1990 in Central Station Square commemorating the 1940–1951 mass deportations in Soviet Moldavia. A permanent memorial was completed at the site in 2013. The sculptural element was assembled in Belarus.
10. Saint Pantaleon's Church
Saint Panteleimon Church is a place of worship and architectural monument of national significance, entered in the Register of monuments of history and culture in Chisinau. It was built in 1891, in the spirit of historical stylizations, based on medieval Greek architecture according to a plan drawn up by architect Alexandru Bernardazzi.
11. Church of the Dormition
The Church of the Assumption is a church of the Diocese of Kishinev of the Russian Orthodox Church in the city of Kishinev. The church was built as a Edinoverie church. It is also called Bolgarskaya after the street on which it is located. In Chisinau there is another church dedicated to the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
12. Moldova National Opera Ballet
The Maria Bieșu National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Chişinău, Moldova, is one of the leading opera and ballet theatres in Eastern Europe. It is housed in a building on the Boulevard Stefan the Great, one of the main roads in Chişinău. In 2012, it was given the name of the renowned opera singer Maria Bieșu.
Wikipedia: Maria Bieșu National Opera and Ballet Theatre (EN), Website
13. National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History
The National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History is a museum in Chisinau, located on 82 Mihail Kogălniceanu Street. It was created in October 1889 based on the collection of exhibits of the first agrarian exhibition in Bessarabia, organized under the initiative of Baron A. Stuart.
Wikipedia: Muzeul Național de Etnografie și Istorie Naturală din Chișinău (RO), Website
14. Teatrul „Alexei Mateevici”
"Alexei Mateevici" Theatre is a public institution in the Republic of Moldova whose mission is to promote lyrical, dramatic theatrical art and non-formal education for all categories of audience. It was founded in 1979 by actor Andrei Vartic, working in the State Philharmonic of Moldova.
15. Nicolae Sulac National Palace
Nicolae Sulac National Palace is a concert and festival venue in the center of Chisinau. The construction of the Palace was completed in 1972 and then it was called the Hall of Sessions, where theater and entertainment performances were organized. It was renamed in 1990.
16. Monument to the Victims of the Jewish Ghetto
The Monument to the Victims of the Jewish Ghetto is a memorial structure in the city of Chisinau in memory of Jews killed by the German-Romanian occupiers during the Great Patriotic War as part of the policy of persecution and extermination of Jews.
17. Sinagoga „Geamgiilor“
The "geamgiilor" synagogue is a Jewish place of worship and architectural monument of local significance, entered in the Register of monuments of history and culture in Chisinau. It is currently led by the Habad Hasidic movement.
18. Alexander Pushkin Historic House Museum
House-Museum of Alexandr Pushkin is a museum and architectural monument in Moldova of national value. It is included in the Register of monuments of history and culture of the municipality of Chișinău.
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