You can spend an entire weekend in Bucharest without setting foot in a museum – and without limiting yourself to restaurants, shopping malls or cinemas. The city has places where you can paint pottery, drive an electric kart, solve an escape room, try climbing, step into a virtual reality game or le... Read more
You drive in, order from your car and can leave without having to find a table or walk through a shopping mall. In Otopeni, on DN1, a new commercial complex has opened around a very specific type of customer: the person already behind the wheel.Laufer DriveIn Mall officially opened on September 24,... Read more
For students in Bucharest, lunch can take up a surprisingly large part of the monthly budget. University canteens remain one of the cheapest ways to get a hot meal, but prices vary significantly across the capital — and the comparison becomes even more interesting when Bucharest is placed alongside... Read more
Autumn in the markets of interwar Bucharest meant noise, crowds and produce piled high, and every shopper arrived with the same question in mind: what will it cost me today? The answer, in the numbers of the time, is easier to picture than the crowd itself.In 1934, a kilogram of potatoes cost 3.10 l... Read more
At nine in the morning, a guard checks a small screen inside a gray-painted booth, while a gardener trims a hedge with a motor that breaks the silence for a few minutes, then stops. No one walks by. A Land Cruiser with tinted windows slows at an automatic gate, waits three seconds, and drives in. Th... Read more
Sector 1 councillors vote today, September 22, on the technical-economic documentation for the reinforcement of Casa Petrescu, located at 115-117 Calea Griviței. The project, worth nearly 90 million lei, calls for a full rehabilitation of the building and its conversion into an educational and cultu... Read more
From September 21 to 27, the northern side of the Rebirth Memorial in Revolution Square gives up its role as a parking lot and turns into open public space. The project, called "Grădina Întâlnirilor" (Garden of Encounters), is organized by the Streets for People Association and marks the f... Read more
In February 2026, the European Urban Initiative, a programme funded by the European Union, launched a €60 million funding call encouraging small and medium-sized cities to adopt solutions already tested in other member states, even when those solutions are new to the city itself. The idea is simple:... Read more
Magheru Boulevard was home, from 1930 onward, to one of interwar Bucharest's landmark buildings: the Ciclop garage, built on land that had belonged to industrialist Dumitru Marinescu Bragadiru, who died back in 1915. His heirs leased the land only in 1928 to a company set up specifically for th... Read more
Every September brings the same phenomenon to Bucharest: tens of thousands of students move into the city, demand for studios and one-bedroom apartments explodes overnight, and some landlords notice this and adjust their prices accordingly. September is the peak of interest in the rental market, an... Read more