Things to see and do Soroca District

This reserve includes three gorges: Rudi, Arionești and Tătărăuca. The Rudi gorge is 5 km long and 250 m deep. You can find Văgăuna Lupilor (the ravine of the Wolves), Văgăuna Vânturilor (the ravine of the Winds), Stânca Balaurului (the Dragon's Rock), Harpa Eoliană (the Harp of the Wind), Peştera Răposaţilor (the Cave of the Dead). Near Rudi Monastery there is a citadel of Thracian origin (possibly the ancient city of Maetorium), a citadel ghetto and a medieval site called the Turk's Plate.

The Cave of the Dead: the entrance is an angular fissure 80 centimeters wide. It is a cave formed in Sarmatian limestone. It is located behind the village church, under the cemetery. Before entering the forest, take a path on the left that leads to the church. It is 1 kilometre long and consists of six rooms, 12.50 metres deep.

The Turk's Plate: this earthen fortress is ring-shaped. On a promontory, the inner courtyard of the fortress is 50 metres in diameter, surrounded by an earthen bastion 6 metres to the north and 4 metres to the south, with a moat 2 metres deep and 12-14 metres wide. Traces of it are still visible. According to archaeologists, these were two towns called "Turkish Plate" and "Germanariu", present between the 10th and 12th centuries. The fortress was built around the 10th century. The inhabitants lived in huts, practising agriculture, animal husbandry and handicrafts (pottery, blacksmith's work, bone objects, etc.)

A nature reserve between the villages of Cosăuți and Iorjniţa, near the monastery, it is the remnant of a huge forest that was called "the forest of Soroca". It extends over approximately 530 ha and is home to a very diverse fauna and flora. The forest was exploited in the past for the shipbuilding of the Russian fleet in the 19th century, the construction of bridges or fortifications. The development of agriculture has transformed forest areas into cultivated fields, leading to soil erosion and changes in the landscape.

The country's ^4th largest reserve abounds in water springs that continue to create a special microclimate, gigantic rocks emerging from the surface are witnesses to the transformations undergone by the earth's crust over the centuries. Caves exist, the best known of which is called "the cave". The river basin is home to a great diversity of animals, wild boar, deer, foxes, and rare species such as the rhinolophes, the Great Horned Owl, the Black Woodpecker, the Semi-Apollon butterflies, the diane and the European Lucan. The forests on the sloping banks of the river, planted mainly with oaks (including a 400 year old secular oak) and cherry trees, have a dense and rich flora, with a multitude of protected plants such as ferns and flowers, bird's nest neottie, pulsating anemone and the superb lily, to name but a few. Some wooded areas exist on the opposite bank in Ukraine.