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Cricova

Cricova is a town in Chișinău municipality, Moldova, located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north of the capital.

Cricova
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Cricova is a town in Chișinău municipality, Moldova, located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north of the capital. It is best known for its vast underground wine cellars, among the largest in the world, which have made Cricova one of Moldova’s leading tourist destinations.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Cricova

Airports
Chişinău (RMO), 23 km · Iaşi (IAS), 94 km · Bacău George Enescu International (BCM), 164 km
  • Iaşi → Cricova
    95 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · lei34–46
  • Bacău → Cricova
    161 km · quickest by road, 5h 33m · lei55–75
  • Suceava → Cricova
    204 km · quickest by road, 6h 11m · lei65–90
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cricova

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cricova. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom specific destinations: Transnistria – From Tiraspol (leaving from the train/bus station: gara) and Bendery there are semi-hourly marshrutkas taking 90 min and 40 rubles.

From Wikivoyage: Chișinău, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    781 km
  2. 02
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    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

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  3. 03
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  4. 04
    MljetHR

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  5. 05
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    1,030 km

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Around it

Next door to Cricova

Cricova is 14 km from Chisinau, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.