Travel in city Chişinău

Lufthansa introduces direct flights from Frankfurt to Rovaniemi, enhancing its Finnish route network and offering access to Lapland’s winter attractions.

The largest range of novelties for summer flights from Riga is offered by the national airline airBaltic.

When it comes to wine, snifter-sized Moldova packs a barrel-sized punch. Sandwiched between the Carpathian Mountains and the Black Sea on the eastern edge of Europe, this is a country with an ancient winemaking tradition that’s experienced a recent boom in independent wineries offering vineyard tours, wine tastings, excellent restaurants and unique accommodation. Moldova's wines are becoming increasingly well recognised internationally, with a local vintage winning Best Red Wine at Concours Mondiale de Bruxelles 2022. See the world’s largest collection of wine, sleep in a wine barrel and sip your way through the many wine varieties on offer in Moldova’s three winemaking regions — Codru, Valul lui Traian and Ștefan Vodă.

Leave the massive crowds of tourists behind in France or Italy, and make your next trip to one of the least-visited European countries.

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However well-travelled you might be, chances are, Moldova isn’t one of the countries already ticked off your list for the simple reason that it’s Europe’s least-visited country. Yet this enigmatic land tucked between Romania and Ukraine has much to offer travellers seeking unspoilt nature and intriguing culture — far from the madding selfie-stick-brandishing crowd.