From February 14 to 16, our honorable hosts will recount the fortress’s military history, its secrets, and the events that shaped the fate of nations. Discover new opportunities for travelers, legendary excursions, and heroic deeds that can be relived upon these ancient walls!

In 1538, the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent conquered the town from Moldavia, and renamed it Bender. Its fortifications were developed into a full fortress under the same name under the supervision of the Turkish architect Koji Mimar Sinan. The Ottomans used it to keep the pressure on Moldavia.

Mar 30, 2025 · From February 14 to 16, our honorable hosts will recount the fortress’s military history, its secrets, and the events that shaped the fate of nations. Discover new opportunities for travelers, legendary excursions, and heroic deeds that can be relived upon these ancient walls!

Bender Fortress is an architectural monument of the XVI century. The fortress is located in the city of Bender on the right bank of the Dniester River. The project of the fortress is the work of a Turkish architect Sinan. It was built on the model of the Western European structure of …

About the fortress; The history of our region since ancient times; История города Бендеры (Тигины) Versions of the emergence of the Bendery fortress; The conquest of the Moldavian Principality by the Ottoman Empire; Stages of construction of the Bendery fortress; Bendery fortress in the Ottoman Empire

Oct 29, 2024 · We took a day trip from Chisinau to visit Bender Fortress, which included crossing the so-called border into Transnistria. Bender Fortress was fun and interesting and is definitely worth a visit. We could easily have spent much longer there than we did.

Nov 23, 2022 · Bendery Fortress (or Tighina Fortress) is situated in Transnistria, a** **region on the bank of the Dniester River, in the eastern part of Moldava. The citadel is considered the true evidence of the former power of the Ottomans because it was a part of their empire.

Bendery Fortress is an architectural monument and a visiting card of Transnistria. The view is mesmerizing, the Dniester River flows nearby. The prices are good, there are excursions, there is a park, a restaurant, and a city beach nearby.

The Tighina Fortress (Romanian: Cetatea Tighina; renamed by the Turks as Bender) is a 15th-century fortress on the right bank of the Dniester River in Bender (also known as Tighina), Moldova, built from earth and wood during the reign of Prince Stephen the Great.

This impressive Ottoman fortress, outside the centre near the Bendery–Tiraspol bridge, was built in the 16th century and saw keen fighting between Turkish and Russian forces before falling to Tsarist Russia permanently in the early 19th century.