Eddie

10 Niche Museums in Bucharest for People Tired of Predictable Itineraries

Sometimes, Bucharest hides its most interesting things in places you may pass twenty times without ever looking up. In an apartment on Lipscani Street, you can step into the living room of a bourgeois family from a century ago; in a house near Carol Park, you enter the world of a couple of artists a... Read more

The Dâmbovița River, from a Source of Disease to Urban Splendour: How the River That Periodically Flooded Bucharest Was Channelled, and What Plans Exist for Its Banks

The Dâmbovița crosses Bucharest with the disciplined air of a civil servant who has memorised his route. It enters from the west, passes neighbourhoods, universities, ministries and apartment blocks, then leaves the city towards the south-east, confined between concrete slabs and boulevards where tr... Read more

The Eva Building on Magheru Boulevard: The Story of the Store Where Communist Bucharest Went Looking for Elegance

On Magheru Boulevard, buildings are rarely granted the privilege of anonymity. Some bear the name of a cinema, others that of a hotel, an institution, or a company that vanished long ago but left behind an urban label more durable than any illuminated sign. The Eva Building belongs to the category o... Read more

Bucharest’s Parachute Tower, the concrete giant that taught people how to fall

Behind the National Arena, among sports grounds, trees and paths where Bucharest residents casually walk their dogs, rises one of the strangest silhouettes in the city. A slender concrete cylinder, as tall as a substantial apartment block, is topped by a metal cantilever resembling the arm of a cran... Read more

10 things you may not have known about Magheru Boulevard

Perhaps the best-known thoroughfare in the Romanian capital after Calea Victoriei, General Gheorghe Magheru Boulevard stretches from Piața Romană to the intersection with C.A. Rosetti Street. Although many people believe that it continues all the way to University Square, from the junction with C.A.... Read more

10 Palaces in Bucharest We Should Be Proud Of

Bucharest hides spectacular sights just a few steps away from the routes people walk every day while staring at their phones. A façade appears behind a fence, a dome becomes the backdrop to a speeding taxi, a monumental staircase quietly exists between two glowing storefronts and a bicycle courier.... Read more

Top 7 Greatest Mayors in Bucharest’s History

Bucharest has always been an urban experiment governed by chance and driven by Balkan passions. Anyone walking today along its crowded boulevards, past eclectic buildings, communist apartment blocks and glass insertions, might get the impression that the city was born from a series of fortunate coin... Read more

Charming Negustori Street, where Bucharest still does business with the past

Without a doubt, Bucharest has a few streets that should be explored on foot, with your phone in your pocket and your eyes raised toward the façades. Charming Negustori Street belongs in that category. It lies between Hristo Botev Boulevard and the Calea Moșilor area, in an old, dense and mildly stu... Read more

Pache Protopopescu, the mayor who had the courage to reshape Bucharest

At the end of the 19th century, Bucharest was growing at the pace of a city that had bought itself European shoes but still walked through mud in them. Horse-drawn trams squeezed between houses, the streets preserved the crooked outlines of old neighbourhoods, and the municipal administration worked... Read more