Mansion Manuk Bay in Hincesti, which now houses the Museum of History and Local History, located about 40 km west of Chisinau. The mansion is a real castle in the French style, with a winter garden, with guard towers and a park. It was built in the second half of the nineteenth century, the project Bernardazzi, and for decades was the property of the family M. Myrzoyan, followers Manuk Bay.

   Prince Manuk Bay (Mirzoian) is an outstanding person. He was a renowned diplomat, however, when his presence in his palace in Bucharest, in 1812, was signed by the Russian-Turkish peace treaty, under which Bessarabia fell under Russian protection.

   In addition, he founded the production of Moldovan wines in accordance with French technology. His successors built in his mansion plant wine and put the local wine-making business on an industrial basis.

   The factory still exists, and is now a modern large enterprise - Vitis Hincesti, which produces high quality wines. In 70-ies of XX century on the estate was opened a museum whose collections are now more than 20,000 exhibits. The most valuable is the collection of the Moldovan national costumes and fabrics. At the same time, the museum being in "Maps and Documents," "Rulers of Moldova", "Ethnography" diorama "Iasi-Kishinev during the Second World War" and an exhibition devoted to the flora and fauna of the Republic of Moldova . Of particular interest in the collection of butterflies and birds of the museum.