17 Sights in Chișinău Municipality, Moldova (with Map and Images)

Nicolae Iorga was a Romanian historian, politician, 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 Senate, cabinet minister and briefly (1931–32) as Prime 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.

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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.

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The building of the former steam mill, called the red Mill, is a non-functional steam mill, a local value architecture monument located on the street of the same name in Chisinau. The building is included in the Register of History and Culture Monuments of Chisinau municipality, composed by the Academy of Sciences. It was built at the end of the 19th century – the early 20th century, eclectic style. One of the highest buildings in the historic area of Colina Pushkin was part of an industrial complex, but now she is alone, isolated from the related construction.

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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

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.

Wikipedia: Muzeul zemstvei (RO)

The "Mihai Eminescu" National Theater in Chisinau begins its history on October 10, 1920, when the first stable Romanian expression theater in Bessarabia was established at the initiative of a leading group of local public life with Sergiu T. Niță, minister of Bessarabia in the Government of Romania, Ștefan Ciobanu, member of the Romanian Academy, the writers: Nicolae N. Beldiceanu, Nicolae Beldiman, Leon Donici and the director Gheorghe Mitu Dumitriu.

Wikipedia: Teatrul Național „Mihai Eminescu” din Chișinău (RO), Website

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)

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.

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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.

Wikipedia: Biserica Sfântul Pantelimon din Chișinău (RO)

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.

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The Assumption Church is the temple of the Chisinau diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in the city of Chisinau. The church is built as a single -relief. Also called Bulgarian along the street on which it is located. In Chisinau, there is another church dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Wikipedia: Успенская церковь (Кишинёв) (RU)

The National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History is a museum in Chisinau municipality located on the street. Mihail Kogălniceanu, 82. It was created in October 1889 based on the collection of exhibits of the first agrarian exhibition in Bessarabia, organised under the initiative of Baron A. Stuart.

Wikipedia: Muzeul Național de Etnografie și Istorie Naturală din Chișinău (RO), Website

The "Alexei Mateevici" Theater is a public institution in the Republic of Moldova, which has the mission and promotion of lyrical, dramatic and non-formal theatrical art for all categories of public. It was founded in 1979 by actor Andrei Vartic, working within the State Philharmonic of Moldova.

Wikipedia: Teatrul „Alexei Mateevici” din Chișinău (RO)

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.

Wikipedia: Palatul Național „Nicolae Sulac” (RO)

The monument to the victims of the Jewish ghetto is a memorial construction in the city of Chisinau in memory of the Jews killed by the German-Romanian invaders during the Great Patriotic War as part of the policy of persecution and destruction of Jews.

Wikipedia: Памятник жертвам еврейского гетто (Кишинёв) (RU)

The National Museum of Romanian Literature in Chisinau was created in the autumn of 1965 under the aegis of the Writers' Union of Moldova. The museum collection consists of over 230 thousand pieces, including books, art objects, documents.

Wikipedia: Muzeul Național de Literatură „Mihail Kogălniceanu” (RO), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Sinagoga geamgiilor din Chișinău (RO), Website