Mosaic roadside spring, Drăsliceni
A roadside spring clad in mosaic at the edge of Drăsliceni, the seat of its commune in the Criuleni district of central Moldova (about 18 km from Chișinău). It stands right at the entrance to the village coming from Ratuș, under a low concrete canopy; beside it rise a painted roadside crucifix (troiță) and a blue metal gate. The panel on the spring wall shows two stags facing each other across a tree of life, worked in tesserae and river pebbles over a mottled field of ceramic shards, framed by brown-and-white chequered folk borders; below the mosaic sit the trough and water spout. Drăsliceni, first attested in a deed of 5 March 1634, is today a village of nearly 1,240 people. The spring belongs to Moldova's tradition of mosaic wells and rural bus stops — small monumental-art gestures scattered along the roads in the 1960s–80s; its author and year are unrecorded.
- Track
- Central Moldova (Codru)
- Neighborhood
- Drăsliceni, Criuleni district
- Building
- Izvor cu mozaic, Drăsliceni, r. Criuleni