Târgu Lǎpuşnei

Lăpușna lay on a Moldavian trade route between the Prut and Dniester. It appears in documents as a rural settlement in 1430–1431, as a customs point by 1454, and as a market town in 1489. Merchants passing through the district connected inland centres with the Black Sea region.

Archaeological remains of the medieval market town lie within the present village of Lăpușna, near the confluence of the Lăpușna River and a tributary. The site includes traces of a church and a burial ground, recalling the institutions and inhabitants of the old town.