On Chisinau's Day, the capital's downtown turned into a plain air exhibition. Chisinau folks and guests profit from the fair weather to admire numerous expos of flowers, handicraft objects, and to listen to all genres of music, concomitantly sounding on the Great National Assembly Square (GNAS), in the Stefan cel Mare Public Garden, in the Cathedral's Park, on the Opera Theater's Square and along Stefan cel Mare si Sfant boulevard, Info-Prim Neo reports. The celebrations have been opened by general mayor Dorin Chirtoaca, who was met with bread, salt and wine by youths in national clothes. The mayor came with a suite of invitees from European cities. “I am very glad that Chisinau city, at its age of half a millennium, now can characterized as young and strong city and jointly with its 18 towns and villages, it has the perspective of becoming a metropolis,” the mayor stated. He has got congratulation messages from the advisor to Romanian President Traian Basescu, Eugen Tomac, from deputy mayor of Bucharest Razvan Murgeanu, the mayor of Petrosani, Tiberiu Iacob Ridzi, and from a representative of the International Francophonie Organization, Erik Norman Tibon. The capital's district offices presented their performances along Stefan cel Mare avenue. The Buiucani district office made a reed cabin adorned with grapes and corn. As a cart and a horse were parked in front of the monument to Stefan the Great, their owner said he brought them for scenery and then to carry children in it. Chisinau children exhibited handicraft objects in Stefan cel Mare Public Garden. Bouquet-making and drawing-on-the-asphalt contests were in full swing nearby. Romanian speaking artists will sing all the day long in the capital, as a disco will be held in plain air in the evening. Incipiently the City Hall wanted to display a fireworks show, but its fate is uncertain. “There are rumors the police will not authorized the fireworks,” mayor Chirtoaca is quoted by Info-Prim Neo as saying.