Монастырь Цыпова

Ţipova Monastery (rum. Ţipova) is a village in Rezina district of Moldova. Along with Lалова and Niстрень villages, it is part of Lалова commune. On the banks of the Dniester River, near the village, there is a rock monastery founded in the 6th century. Here, in the 15th century, Prince Stephen III the Great married his wife, Maria Voichița. From 1776, the period of flourishing and expansion of the monastery begins. The rock church was divided into large rooms, separated from each other by massive columns. At the beginning of the Soviet period, the monastery was closed, but in 1974 the ruins of the rock monastery were taken under state protection, and in 1994 church services were resumed here. Currently, the monastery is open for daily visits. In 2012, the monastery was restored. There is a legend that the mythological poet Orpheus lived his last years in the rocks near Ţipova. Not far from the village is the gorge of the landscape reserve „Ţipova”, where in the 4th-3rd centuries BC