MileÃÂtii Mici is a commune in Ialoveni District, Moldova, composed of two villages, MileÃÂtii Mici and Piatra AlbÃÂ. It has a population of over 4,500 and is from Chià ÂinÃÂu. For much of its history, the locals have extracted white stone from underneath the village. Several hundred kilometers of the underground extraction site exist today. Some of the shafts are used as cellars for storing Mileà Âtii Mici wines.
MileÃÂtii Mici is an ancient Moldovan village, having been mentioned in ancient books and chronicles. Archeological research has found settlement remains from many different epochs and cultures, beginning in the tenth to eleventh millennium BC.
In 1970, Emmanuel BrihuneÃÂ, the priest of "Saint Nikolai" church in MileÃÂtii Mici, discovered some references about the village in old manuscripts, dating from 30 March 1528.
In these early modern chronicles it is mentioned that King Petru Rares gave his grandson, Lashko-Voda from Isnovet, three other villages, two of which were situated around Isnovet River.
When the Soviet Union gained control under Moldova, there was an order to destroy the wine collection, but the workers made a secret door where they stored the collection.
Stretching for , of which only are currently in use, the MileÃÂtii Mici cellar complex is the largest in the world. In 2007, the MileÃÂtii Mici wine cellars were noted in the Guinness World Records 2007 Yearbook, for having the largest (2 million bottles) wine collection in the world.