Situated in a tempered climacteric area and having an extremely multifarious relief, the Republic of Moldova preserves an imposing number of landscape architecture ensembles. The following mansions with parks are under protection by the state: the ones from the villages of Branzeni, Hancesti, Ivancea, Mandac, Miclesti, Milesti, Temeleuti, Taul, Stolniceni, Livadeni, Balabanesti, Cuhurestii de Sus, Iarova, Rediul-Mare. Having been formed mostly of the landscape architecture ensembles dating from the end of the XVIIIth century or the beginning of the XIXth century, these parks with mansions are dependent upon the aesthetics of the European "classicism", "romanticism" and "naturalism". One may discover in their architecture both French reminiscences of "rectangular-geometric" and "Italian alleys and cascades" traditions or English predilections of preserving a special natural relief in the "gardens of the epoch of Romanticism". As for the selection of trees and bushes, the principles of placement of park terraces or disposal of edifices within the framework of green plantations - a local practice, present in the landscape architecture of gardens and yards nearby old Basarabian monasteries - shall not be omitted (for instance, natural reservation Rudi-Arionesti, built around the Rudi monastery, gardens and cascades of the Saint Trinity Monastery in Saharna; the Harjauca Monastery garden park, etc.).
Towards the end of the XIXth century and beginning of the XXth century the influence of eclecticism is starting to seep through the landscape architecture of Basarabia, specific to Russian and European art of that period.
Neither the cultural context of the development of park architecture in the Republic of Moldova shall be neglected. For the most part, these parks comprised mansions and palaces, which were linked, in their turn, to the notorious names of Basarabia. Thus, the park and the mansion in Cernoleuca belonged to Cazimir family, a representative of which, C.F. Cazimir, used to be one of the former pioneers of agricultural science in Basarabia. The writer C. Negruzzi was one of the frequent visitors of the village of Tarnova, where his uncle's, M. Negruzzi, mansion is located. The writer C. Stamati was the proprietor of the park, located nearby the village of Ocnita. A renowned Russian poet, Alexander Puskin, used to stay in the mansion of Ralli family during his exile in Basarabia, which is located in the village of Dolna. Leon Donici, a renowned astronomer of that time, created an observatory within the mansion park in the village of Dubasarii Vechi (the Interwar period).
The second half of the XXth century significantly changed the functions and status of landscape architecture of the Republic of Moldova. If in the XIXth century the principal role was given to the park, yard or garden, constituted around the mansion or palace, in the XXth century the principal role was given to parks with irregular planimetry, formed in urban areas. The case of Chisinau is very significant in this respect. Staring with the XIXth century the capital of Basarabia inherited only the parks with regular alleys of French type (currently named as "Stefan cel Mare" Public Garden and "Cathedral Park"). Besides the enrichment of these parks by new sculptural and architectural edifices ("The classics' alley" in the public garden "Stefan cel Mare"), the new parks and public gardens are constituted in the second half of the XXth century at the peripheries of the city, using for this goal the already existent flora of forests, surrounding the city. Therefore, the parks currently separating the quarters of "Rascani" and "Ciocana Noua" appear in the north of Chisinau. Other parks, such as the one from "Valea Morilor (Windmill Valley)" was created along the 50's as a result of ample works related to the territory arrangement and digging of an artificial lake on the site of several fountains, as well as projection (by the architects R. Curt and D. Palatnic) of certain long access stairs etc. Similar was the constitution of the park "Valea Trandafirilor (Valley of Roses)" with three lakes, consecutively placed and crossed by the access paths of the alleys in the 60's - 70's or the constitution of the "La izvor" park (At the stream), formed around several lakes and situated nearby the river Bac in the 70's - 80's of the XXth century. The traditional landscape architecture of Basarabian mansions ceased to develop in current social and economic conditions in the second half of the XXth century. Still, it did not disappear completely, but remained an area of study and restoration of the old parks and landscape gardens, transformed in natural reservations. The historic events, which followed the fall of the communism in the Eastern Europe in 1989-1991, did not revitalize too costly traditions of the Basarabian landscape architecture of the XIXth century, in spite of revival of construction of private villas.
