Based in Tiraspol, the local Spectrum Travel Company has designed a full day guided tour of Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica. Here's what they suggest...
08.00 – start of the excursion from Tiraspol.
08.00-09.00 – Drive from Tiraspol to Causheni. Wonderful scenery on the way.
Day tour with English speaking guide
09.00-10.00 – Causheni, panoramic tour, visiting the Assumption of the Virgin Mary Church. This is a real archeological, architecturally and historical monument, from the XV to the XVII centuries. Of special interest is the fact that half of the church is located underground, in caves and dugout hiding places made to resist a possible invasion of the enemy Muslim Ottomans, based in Moldova on the other side of the Dniester river. All the pictures represent the last stage in the development of medieval Fresco while the iconography is influenced by Byzantine Art. While in Causheni, you can also visit the local history museum.
10.00-10.30 – Drive from Causheni to Kitskani. Take pictures as you drive through the authentic, typical villages of Pridnestrovie's countryside.
10.30-11.30 – In Kitskani, visit the Noul Nyamt Cloister accompanied by local Pridnestrovian monk. He will take you up into the bell-tower, and also let you visit the cloister’s museum, churches, and park.
12.00-12.30 – Drive from Kitskani to Bender.
12.30-13.30 – Bender, panoramic tour. Near the oldest Dniester gorge, in the third century B.C., there was a human settlement in Bender. Later there appeared the first palisade and earthwork fortifications. The first documentary mention of the Bender Fortress was in 1408. The fortress was rebuilt in stone. Its walls have survived to the present day and offer an example of classic defensive construction.
13.30-14.30 – lunch in the restaurant “Old Bendery”.
14.30-15.00 – Drive from Bender to Tiraspol. Tiraspol derives from a Greek word “the town on the Dniester”. In its present form, Tiraspol first appeared on the map in 1792 during the Russian and Turkish battle near Bender Fortress. In just a few months, a fortress with 3 towers was constructed in Tiraspol to strengthen the positions of the Russian Army lead by Alexander Suvorov. Tiraspol is a Green Town with a beautiful leisure zone on the banks of the Dniester river. There is an old Tree Garden in the centre of the town. You can also visit:
- Museum of History and Ethnography in Tiraspol
- Tiraspol State University,
- Drama Theatre,
- Statue of General Alexander Suvorov
- Statue of the Decembrist V. Raievscki.
An interesting side trip can be organized to the geo-palaeonthologic monument Valceana Colcot.
15.00-16.00 – Tiraspol, panoramic tour.
16.00-17.00 – visiting the Sheriff Sports Complex. The territory of the complex extends 40 hectares, covering the main football arena as well as smaller fields (currently five), training pitches, covered in-door football hall, residential housing for team players, a Five Star hotel being readied for its grand opening, and a football college for children.
17.30-19.00 – visiting the wine-museum “Butylka”. The museum is located inside a 28 m tall bottle shaped building, the largest of its kind in the world. Rare and exclusive examples of more than 4000 kinds of alcoholic beverages from 70 countries of the world are on display in the collection. Tasting of wines and cognacs is suggested after the viewing of the museum’s collection.
19.30 – return in the hotel in Tiraspol.
Price in EUR for individual tourist/group:
1-3 persons 225 euro (total)
4-7 persons: 70 euro/pp
8-17 persons: 60 euro/pp
18-25 persons: 55 euro/pp
26-40 persons: 45 euro/pp
Includes: Transportation, lunch, excursions with the guide (English speaking), entrance fees, wine-tastings.
To book a tour, contact Spectrum Travel Company..
