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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Phanariot Bucharest had little in common with today’s city of boulevards, office buildings and impatient traffic lights. In the 18th century, the capital resembled a sprawling market town, crossed by wooden-paved roads and scattered with boyar estates, inns, gardens, churches and neighbourhoods that... Read more