You’re at the second level of Soroca Fortress interior. The Fortress was built at the crossing of the Dniester River in the first half of XIV century. At first it was a wooden structure. During the reign of Petru Rares (1543 1546), the Fortress was rebuilt literally from the ground with stone replacing. It looked exactly the same as nowadays, that is, completely round, with a diameter of 123 ft (37.5m) and 5 towers being equidistant from each other. When designing the fortress the builders incorporated the supreme law of harmony the Golden Section – thus this structure is quite unique among the pieces of European defense architecture.
