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City Castel Mimi
"Bessarabia's last governor raised a castle around his wine cellars; today you sleep in it."
City Căușeni
"Built into the ground to duck Ottoman height law, a sunken nave filled with saints."
Wilderness Codrii Nature Reserve
"Half of Moldova's characteristic flora survives in one hill forest of oaks, ravines and wildcats."
City Comrat
"A Turkic-speaking Orthodox people run their own region here; in May the Horo shakes the ground."
Mountain Cosăuți
"Stone-carvers work beside an ice-age camp that left antler pikes grooved to drain blood."
City Cricova
"Ride an electric train down wine streets that hide Göring's captured cellar 80 metres underground."
City Hîncești
"A French palace in a Moldovan market town, its vaults credited to the sea-painter Aivazovski."
Water Japca Monastery
"Every monastery in Moldova closed under the Soviets except this one, praying above the Dniester."
City Lipcani
"A town four-fifths Jewish before 1941; its record survives in 3,527 recorded graves by the Prut."
City Mileștii Mici
"Drive streets named Cabernet and Feteasca through the wine cellar Guinness lists as the world's largest."
City Orheiul Vechi
"Candles burn in a cliff-dug monastery cell; a Golden Horde city lies buried around the bend."
Mountain Rudi
"The Earth was measured from a stone in this orchard, on a line to the Arctic."
Water Saharna
"Waterfalls stair the gorge down to a monastery where pilgrims climb to a footprint in stone."
City Soroca
"Mansions crowd a hill above a perfect-circle fortress; one is shaped like the Bolshoi Theatre."
Mountain Țipova
"Hermit cells climb a Dniester cliff where legend buries Orpheus in a nook of a waterfall."