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Chişinău

Moldova

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Sunny afternon spent in Stefan cel Mare Park in Chisnau.

Sunny afternon spent in Stefan cel Mare Park in Chisnau.

Overview

Pretty much all roads in Moldova lead to its wine-and-food loving capital. While the city’s origins date back six centuries to 1420, much of Chişinău was levelled in WWII and a tragic earthquake that struck in 1940. The Soviets rebuilt it into what you see today: grandiose Stalinist architecture mixed with gloriously brutal modernism from the later Soviet period and a smattering of pre-WWII edifices.

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