List of fortifications in Moldova

|align="center" bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |Bender Fortress, Tighina Fortress

(Cetatea Tighina,
Cetatea Bender) {{cite web |title=Cetatea Bender (Tighina) (Tighina Fort, Bender Fort) |url=https://moldovenii.md/md/section/745/content/9960 |website=moldovenii.md |publisher=Moldovenii.md |access-date=26 January 2025}}

|align="center"|Bender
(Tighina)

|align="center"|City of Bender
(de facto municipality, not recognized by Moldova)

|align="center"|15th century
(earlier fortress)

16th century
(after 1538,
current fortress)

|align="center"|Partially restored

Museum exhibits

|align="center"|Fortress

|align="center"|Built to protect the town of Tighina/Bender and local trade routes from enemy incursions.
The original, smaller fort, was established in Tighina during the 15th century by Stephen III the Great.
The full stone fortress was built after 1538, when the Ottoman Empire captured
the town of Tighina, renaming it Bender/Bendery. After 1812, the fortress began to lose its previous military significance. The fortress is currently located within the unrecognized breakaway territory of Transnistria.

|align="center"|Chișinău Prison Castle {{cite web |title=The old Prison Castle |url=https://visit.chisinau.md/en/obiective_turistice/castelul-inchisoare/ |website=visit.chisinau.md |publisher=Visit.chisinau.md |access-date=26 January 2025}}

|align="center"|Chișinău

|align="center"|Municipality of Chișinău

|align="center"|1840s-1850s
(construction)

|align="center"|Defunct,
some remains

|align="center"|Prison fortress

Fortified prison

|align="center"|Fortified prison built in Chișinău in the 19th century. Designed by Swiss architect Giorgio Toriсelli in 1834, completed by the 1850s. No longer in use since the 1940s.

|align="center"|Orhei Fort
(Cetatea Orhei)
{{cite web |title=Cetatea Orhei (Orhei Fort) |url=https://moldovenii.md/md/section/745/content/9959 |website=moldovenii.md |publisher=Moldovenii.md |access-date=26 January 2025}} {{cite web |title=Recreere / Excursii - Cetatea Orhei |url=https://edu.emoldova.org/d/591-cetatea-orhei |website=edu.emoldova.org |publisher=Edu.emoldova.org |access-date=26 January 2025}} {{cite web |title=Ştiaţi că la Orheiul Vechi există o CETATE? ("Did you know there is a fortress in Old Orhei ?") |url=https://www.ziarulnational.md/cetatea-de-la-orheiul-vechi/ |website=ziarulnational.md |publisher=Ziarul National (National News) |date=5 October 2014 |access-date=26 January 2025}}

|align="center"|Old Orhei (former)

Trebujeni (present)

|align="center"|Orhei District

|align="center"|1460s

|align="center"|Defunct,
Ruins

|align="center"|Bastion fortress

Castle

|align="center"|Built during the reign of Stephen the Great, the fortress was located
at the town of Old Orhei (now in ruins), near the present day village of Trebujeni.

Though known from historical dioramas, only the ruins of the fortresses' foundations
remain in the present day. It is Moldova's oldest surviving medieval stone fortress.

|align="center"|Soroca Fort
(Cetatea Soroca)
{{cite web |title=Cetatea Soroca (Soroca Fort) |url=https://moldovenii.md/md/section/745/content/9964 |website=moldovenii.md |publisher=Moldovenii.md |access-date=26 January 2025}} {{cite web |title=Historical Archives - Film in Moldova (English version) - Filming locations - Historical - Soroca Fortress |url=https://filminmoldova.md/en/locations-filter/historical/ |website=filminmoldova.md |publisher=Filminmoldova.md (Historical Archives - Film in Moldova) |access-date=29 January 2025}}

|align="center"|Soroca

|align="center"|Soroca District

|align="center"|13th century
(the oldest fort)

1499
(rebuilt as a wooden castle)

1543-1546
(rebuilt as a stone fortress)

|align="center"|Partially restored

Some museum exhibits

|align="center"|Fortress

Castle

|align="center"|Built during the reign of Stephen the Great, for guarding a strategic ford on the Dniester river,
part of the local main road. The 13th-15th century wooden fortress was rebuilt into
a wooden castle in 1499, then by Stephen the Great's successor Petru Rareș into
a stone fort/castle during the first half of the 16th century, in the mid-1540s.

The Soroca Fortress is Moldova's best preserved late-medieval and Renaissance era fortress. Conservation work was carried out in the mid-2010s. The fort houses a small number of interior exhibits, including a historical altar
with Orthodox icons.

|align="center" bgcolor="#d0d0d0" |Tiraspol Fortress
(Cetatea din Tiraspol)

|align="center"|Tiraspol

|align="center"|City of Tiraspol
(de facto municipality, not recognized by Moldova)

de iure part of the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester

|align="center"|1790s

|align="center"|Defunct,
Ruins

|align="center"|18th-19th century bastion fort

|align="center"|The town of Tiraspol was established by the Russian Empire in 1792, the fortress for the local
military garrison was built in the 1790s and served its military role until roughly the mid-19th century.
The minor remnants of the fortress are located near the city of Tiraspol, the capital
of the unrecognized breakaway territory of Transnistria.