A new parking structure is set to open at Henri Coandă Airport in Otopeni, with four floors and more than 1,000 spaces, located next to the Arrivals building. The rate hasn't been set yet. Until an official announcement, the question remains the same for anyone leaving a car at the airport for... Read more
Bucharest holds on to a few corners of its recent past, quite literally: the house where a family lived until the regime's last day in power, a museum where the coffee is still brewed the way it was forty years ago, and a building whose underground floors remain, for the most part, closed to vi... Read more
Constitution Square turned into a tightly organized construction site overnight. For hours, dozens of workers assembled modules made of europallets and particleboard panels, until the structure stretched across the entire square and continued onto Union Boulevard, toward Union Square. The result: 5.... Read more
A few kilometers from Piața Unirii, under the apartment blocks of Berceni and Olteniței, sit an abandoned railway station, a ruined power plant, and a nature reserve with otters and wild swans. Sector 4 isn't just heavy traffic on Șoseaua Olteniței or the endless construction site at Unirii. It has... Read more
In a former stocking factory on 11 Iunie Street, people climb walls instead of walking through a bar's front door. A few kilometers away, on the site of an abandoned sports base in Aviației, kids chase a ball across FIFA-standard artificial turf. And once a year, in Sector 6, an entire lake gets dra... Read more
On Monday, September 7, thousands of Bucharest schoolchildren got ready for the first day of school with water heated on the stove and poured into a basin. According to Termoenergetica, 1,666 buildings across the city, apartment blocks, schools, kindergartens, mostly in districts 2, 3, 4 and 5 had t... Read more
The Bucharest School Inspectorate announced the mid-year break dates in early September: February 22-27, 2027. Bucharest students start the break on Monday, February 22, and return to class on Monday, March 1.The date isn't chosen freely by the inspectorate. It comes from a system set out in Educati... Read more
Bucharest, September, sometime between 1920 and 1938. On the streets around the city's downtown high schools, groups of children began to appear with new satchels, smelling of unbroken leather and freshly bought uniform fabric, still stiff to the touch. Shoes creaked on the cobblestones, and in the... Read more
Ten years ago, the question "where's a good place to live in Bucharest" had a simple answer: as close to the center as you could afford, or as far north as possible, toward Herăstrău and Pipera. Everywhere else was, largely, just a matter of budget. That's shifted. Public and private money has moved... Read more
The 2026/2027 school year starts on September 7. Bucharest's City Hall has tied that date to the deadlines for several construction projects under public scrutiny: the Basarab Overpass, the slab in Unirii Square, the tram lines affected by the works. On paper, the schedule is being kept, but on the... Read more