The Cave under a Cemetery (VIDEO)
By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- At 192 km from Chisinau, in Soroca, in the village Rudi there is a cave that was formed in the underground of a cemetery. This mysterious cave is named “Cave of Dead” and covers an area of an indefinite length. The legend says that it crosses under the bed of the river Dniester and ends on the left side.
The cave was investigated over a distance of 70 meters, after this distance it becomes impractical. The cave consists of six rooms formed in the Sarmatian limestone. The six rooms are separated one from another by narrow cracks. The last one in the crocodile’s, named so because of a stone that looks like a crocodile.
Like any other mysterious places, the cave has a legend, which says that the underground would have been a witness of a great love between two young people, but the boy was locked in the cave. But it proceeds to be only a legend.
Besides the enigmatic cave, village Rudi attracts the tourists with its lots of natural and historical beauties. The vestiges of the inhabiting on this territory since ancient times, even prehistoric times, are multiple. Traces of human activity are attested in the local cave. Ruins of ancient fortifications, two ground fortifications on the Turkish Plate and on the Germinarium are vestiges of the early medieval era.
According to archeologists, the Turkish Plate is a prehistoric settlement, which was built in VIII – IX centuries and surrounded with a circular wall and a ditch. The wall has a height of 6 meters, but at south-west and west sides it is up to 4 meters.
Rudi village is mentioned for the first time in historical sources in 1463 and according to the latest census here live 1982 people. The locality is important both historically and religiously.
On one of the gorges that surround the village there is located the greatest attraction of the locality – a monastery which is considered to be one of the oldest from Moldova. The church of the monastery was built by Duca Voda in 1777, on the estate of brothers Andronache and Theodore. The construction of the monastery was connected to a legend, which says that there is a spring whose water does wonders.
In the UNESCO World Heritage List is included the Struve Geodetic Arc, which is near the village Rudi. In the past, in Moldova were 27 stationary points, after which were measurements for preparing of international maps. Nowadays only one continues to exist, that from Rudi village. It is located in an orchard of apple trees, at 300 meters from the road Soroca – Otaci.
Lots of other natural and landscape wonders wait for you in Soroca, in the locality Rudi; go to see them and you will feel closer to the true national values.
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