Romania Moldavia Iasi

A major cultural, historic, and artistic center, Iasi is a vibrant university city with great restaurants and shopping.

Admire the architectural diversity of this wonderful city center, traipsing the streets and enjoying glimpses of local life.

Fusing Baroque and Byzantine architecture, this 17C monastery retains original furniture and extraordinary ornamentation.

A spectacular neo-Gothic palace with remarkable ornamental details, housing four museums of the Moldova National Museum Complex.

A somber hilltop area overseeing the city, home to 80,000 ancient tombstones and a memorial commemorating victims of the Holocaust.

Romania's oldest synagogue dates to 17C, boasting a wide dome with a lantern and a small museum about the Iasi Jewish community.

Romania's oldest botanical garden dates to the 19C, offering educational and recreational areas, as well as gardens and a lake.

A fine historic park, home to a 500-year-old lime tree, a 13m obelisk, and a museum honoring Mihai Eminescu, a famed Romanian poet.

The oldest national theater in Romania boasts a marvelous Neoclassical facade with elements of Rococo and Baroque ornamentation.

A 17C fortified monastery, home to a medieval art museum, a wine cellar, and a tower that affords wonderful views of the city.

A 17C monastery and church, renowned for its remarkable lace-patterned stone facade, as well as many other decorative elements.