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8-Hour Tour Of Tiraspol, Tighina And Mileștii Mici From Chisinau

  • Tour Category

    Private Tour

  • Tour Types

    Winetour, Architecture, History

  • Duration

    8 Hours

  • Activity Level

    Easy

  • Language

    English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish

Description

Go for a short guided visit from Chisinau to the Moldovan cities of Tiraspol & Bender, also known as Tighina. Explore the impressive Ottoman Bender Fortress and visit Tiraspol, the capital of unrecognized Transnistria. Also, go for an exciting tour of the Mileștii Mici wine cellar and taste some delicious wines on this 8-hour tour.

Highlights
  • Taste some wines at the Mileștii Mici wine cellar
  • Visit Tiraspol, Bender and the breath-taking Bender Fortress
  • Chisinau - Milestii Mici - Transnistria - Chisinau expand_more
    • After your registration at 09:15 am, you will leave Chisinau to visit a nearby wine cellar with your tour guide. Get an excellent opportunity to visit one of the oldest wine production cellars in Moldova, the wine cellar "Mileștii Mici"and go for some wine tasting. Also, visit the cellar store where you can purchase a bottle of wine from the heart of the winery.
    • Head to Tiraspol city, the capital of the unrecognised Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (Transnistria). You will need a passport at the Transnistria border.  
    • If you wish, you can stop for dinner or lunch at one of the best restaurants in Tiraspol.
    • Go on a Bender city tour with your tour guide. Visit the Bender Fortress which was built in one the most powerful medieval cities of Moldova, Tighina, which was an important trade outpost. Originally built as a small wooden fort by Stefan cel Mare, it was fortified with stones during Petru Rares' rule.
    • At the end of the tour, you will be dropped back in Chisinau.
What's Included

  • Moldovan tour guide

What's Excluded

  • Personal expenses

  • Extra drinks

Know before you go
  • The excursion will start with Tiraspol city tour - the capital of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic. The town was founded thanks to the Peace Treaty of Jassy, which was concluded after the Russian-Turkish War (1787-1791) between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire. According to this Treaty, the Ottoman Empire ceded to the Russian Empire the region of Ochakov that included the land between the Rivers Dniester and Southern Bug. Empress Catherine II, wishing to strengthen the border on the left bank of the Dniester, entrusts the governor V.Kahovsky "overlook the land between the Bug and the Dniester" and prepare proposals for its administrative and territorial structure.
  • After the Tiraspol City Tour, our guests will have the possibility to enjoy lunch with the Ukrainian dishes in Tiraspol. 
  • The next visited place will be the town was known in the Middle Ages as Tighina in  Moldovian/ Romanian sources and later as Bender in Ottoman sources. The town was first mentioned as an important customs post in a commerce grant issued by the Moldavian voivode Alexander the Good to the merchants of Lviv (Ukraine) on October 8, 1408. The name "Tighina" is found in documents from the second half of the 15th century.
  • In 1538, the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent conquered the town and renamed it, Bender. Its fortifications were developed into a full fortress under the same name under the supervision of the Turkish architect Koji Mimar Sinan. The Ottomans used it to keep the pressure on Moldavia, between localities and Varna and Bender of the Republic of Moldova.
Meeting Point

Chișinău, Moldova

Cancellation Policy

For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -

Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price Details
Standard
1 To 2 USD 99 Per Person

This is a private tour
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USD 99 / person