It is said that long, long ago, St. Andrew, who brought us Christianity, passed over our lands. And, walking around the world, from village to village, from house to house, he stopped one day to take a breather in a picturesque valley full of roses and springs. He sipped fresh water, blessed it and gave it miraculous powers. Not long after, the nearby girls learned that the water in the springs can make miracles.  And they began to sneak up at night to the springs, to wash their faces in the moonlight, necessarily to tear off a rose and to puncture their ring finger, and to wash the drops of blood in the cold and clean water, as an offering of the desired love.

And the most daring girls took home a pitcher full of spring water, hid it in a well-stocked place, and before the meeting took 3 sips of water, so that the boys would fall in love with them forever.

Water worked wonders, and more and more people heard at the gate, “Do you receive the suitors?”

And the news went on and on about the Enchanted Valley in the Rose Garden.

But years passed, people were coming and going, other traditions came, the old ones were forgotten. And the springs changed their top of the water, forming a picturesque lake. And The Enchanted Valley of the Rose Garden became the Valley Of The Roses – a wonderful park in the city of Chisinau, so much loved by the locals.

*Rose Valley Park (former V. I. Lenin Culture Park during the USSR) – previously there were large rose plantations of Kazanlak species here.