Capriana Monastery Tour&Chateau Cojusna Winery

In the morning, we’ll take you to one of the most beautiful Moldovan monasteries Capriana monastery. The monastery is considered to be the oldest one in Moldova and is located in a beautiful green area of nature reserve Codru. The first documented reference of the monastery dates back to 1420 when the church is mentioned as a wooden construction. Great Moldovan Ruler Stefan the Great was the first who built the monastery in stone being suffered significantly during the invasions of the Turks and Tatars. Closed and dilapidated during the post-war period from 1962, it was only reopened again in 1989, becoming a symbol of national revival.

The entrance into Capriana Monsatery is always open and stepping into the yard one is overwhelmed by a feeling of peace and quiet and mystery, because it is here that you can find one of the most old churches of Basarabia, this is where you feel how eras and architecture styles interweave, this is where you breathe the air of Codru and the fragrance of incense, this is where you find the symbol of Orthodox faith and the symbol of Moldova.

We invite you to discover together with us the Monastery complex Capriana in all its beauty –with its three churches where the abbot Chiprian was walking and the first Mitropolit of Moldovei, Gavriil Banulescu Bodoni, in order to get to know and live again those 6 centuries of Monastery existence.

Jointly we will find out from where the name of the Monastery derives and which are the legends that are associated with it, which are the treasures are hidden inside the old church, what was the fate of the Monastery during the time of Antioh Cantemir, during the WWII and during the time of soviet rule (1962-1989), historical, religious, architectural moments that occurred until the reconstruction of Monastery complex Capriana between 2003-2007.

Later, move to Chateau Cojusna winery that has a modern wine production facility and a distillery, as well as a tourist complex based on a French chateau in design. This includes cellars where wines are aged in oak barrels, along with 175,000 bottles in the Galeria Migdal wine collection; a distillery which produces divine and several tasting rooms decorated in a medieval style.

Visitors are also invited to the top of the Chateau Cojușna tower, to enjoy a breathtaking panoramic view of the winery’s vineyards.

One of the most exclusive and valuable wine bottles stored at the winery is MARSALA, produced in 1990.