Pascani is a municipality in the county of Iasi, Moldova, Romania, consisting of Blagesti, Bosteni, Gastesti, Lunca, Pascani and Sodomeni. It is the second largest urban center in the county, with a population of 33,745 (2011). It is an important railway junction. The city is located in the north-west of the county, in the south of the Suceava Plateau, on the banks of the Siret River. It is crossed by the national road DN28A, which connects it east of Targu Frumos (further to Iasi on DN28) and west of Motca (further to Suceava on DN2). This road intersects at Pascani with the DJ208 county road connecting it south of Stolniceni-Prajescu, Mogosesti-Siret, Halaucesti, Mircesti and further to the Neamt County of Sabaoani (where it ends in DN2 leading further to Roman) and North of Valea Seaca, Lespezi, and further in the Suceava county to Dolhasca, Dolhesti, Preutesti and Falticeni (where it also ends in DN2). Also from DN28A, at Blagesti branch the county road DJ281C, which leads to northeast at Harmanesti, Todiresti, Bals and Cotnari (where it ends in DN28B). The city is a railway junction, its railway station Suceava-Roman being the point from which another important railway line branches to Iasi (CFR 606) and a secondary one towards Targu Neamt.
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza Memorial Palace
The Palace, which today houses the Al. I. Cuza was built in the first decade of the nineteenth century by the reverend Sandulache Sturdza, who commissioned Viennese architect Johan Freiwald to build a luxurious residence on the site of his old ancients' house. The original style was the neo-classic, preserved by the chapel of the residence, a style that had prevailed in the civil architecture of Moldova at that time. In 1847, Logos Costache Sturdza - prefigured the house from Ruginoasa after the Gothic style architecture - and the Architect Johan Brandel. The works were completed in 1855. The building, which preserves the characteristics of the neo-gothic style, inspired by the German romanticism, is a square, one-storey, each of the four facades having the same elements: large platforms, balconies supported on stone slabs. The striking resemblance to the palace at Miclauseni, Iasi, is not accidental, being built by another branch of the Sturdza family.
Still Sturdzestii were the ones who built the church near the castle and the wall wall with gothic bastions. According to Western fashion, a German gardener, Mehler, was brought to Ruginoasa to arrange a beautiful park with wide paths and exotic vegetation. In April 1857, the abandoned and threatened palace, as well as the Ruginoasei estate, with 8,000 hectares, were mortgaged by Alexandru Sturdza at the National Bank of Moldova for the sum of 60,000 golden coins. The rates could not be paid in time so that the property was auctioned and bought in 1862 by Al. I. Cuza, the prince of the United Principalities. The Easter days of 1864 were spent by the reigning family, surrounded by friends, at Ruginoasa
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