Every fall, once universities post their dorm room assignments, a wave of students is left without a spot: those who didn't score enough points, those who arrived in the city too late, or those who simply want better conditions than a four-person room with a bathroom down the hall. For them, Buchare... Read more
On Splaiul Independenței, at number 290, sits Bucharest's largest student neighborhood: 27 dormitories, a cafeteria, a laundry, a medical office, and its own police station. This is the Regie complex, the heart of student life at Politehnica, built over six decades ago on land that had been, until t... Read more
At the dormitory on Cantacuzino Street, the gate closed at eight in the evening. Whoever arrived late stayed outside, no matter the reason. That was how one of Bucharest's first state-run student dormitories operated in the 1920s, inside a building that used to be a school, with iron-frame beds in t... Read more
On the roof of the main building of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, right above the entrance facing Piața Romană, a metal ball has sat atop a dome for nearly a century. Students who walk through the square every day, heading to the metro or to the terraces nearby, rarely look up. Those... Read more
On Strada Parfumului, a short walk from Piața Unirii, a multi-level building holds one of the strangest collections in Bucharest. This isn't art or national history, it's objects most people would throw away without a second thought: flatirons, corkscrews, metal stands for hot cookware. The Museum o... Read more
Some places don't need a plaque to tell their story. Rose Island, in Herăstrău Park, is one of them. You cross it in a hurry, on your way to the Village Museum or the boat dock, and it looks like just a nicer-kept stretch of park, roses climbing over trellises, water on both sides. In reality, this... Read more
There's a Bucharest most people walk past without noticing: a real telescope tucked inside a building shaped like a yacht, a glass elevator bolted onto the back of the largest administrative building in Europe, a river most locals only ever cross on bridges, without looking down. None of it requires... Read more
Titu Maiorescu tops the list with an English-language Medicine program for non-EU students: 13,500 euros in year one, according to the tuition regulation approved by the Senate for 2026-2027. It's the highest tuition fee in the country, not just in the capital. The amount doesn't stay fixed through... Read more
On July 28, the University of Bucharest announced, at a press conference held jointly with the Romanian Order of Architects, the winner of the international competition to redesign the garden of Casa Universitarilor. The one-person architecture practice of Vlad Sebastian Rusu was picked by the jury... Read more
Few people know that before it was a park, Cișmigiu was just an abandoned pond, sitting at the edge of a city that hadn't yet thought about public green spaces. It was called "Dura the merchant's lake," after a property owner from the seventeenth century, and that's how it stayed for a long time: st... Read more