A Day Trip to Soroca Fortress: What to Expect, What You’ll See, and Why a Guide Changes Everything A day trip from Chișinău to Soroca Fortress is not simply a visit to a medieval castle—it is a 300-kilometer round journey into northern Moldova’s layered history, Roma culture, and river-border geography, and the difference between doing...Read More

The Gates of Chișinău: How Two 24-Story Soviet Towers Became the City’s Most Ambiguous Welcome The buildings known as the “Gates of Chișinău” are not one monument but a pair of concrete towers standing 70 meters tall on Dacia Boulevard, and their nickname is both a civic boast and a quiet confession. Built between the...Read More

The Romanita Tower: Chișinău’s Concrete Flower and the Compulsion of Soviet Nostalgia The Romanita Collective Housing Tower is the single most photographed, most debated, and most urgently visited Soviet-era building in Chișinău—not because it is beautiful, but because it is disappearing. A 73-meter concrete cylinder with 22 floors and 165 apartments, Romanita was once the...Read More