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
Romania's National Meteorological Administration (ANM) issued a weather advisory on Sunday, August 2, covering the capital through Thursday, August 6, at 10:00 a.m. Temperatures climb day by day this week, pushing the city into a severe heat wave with high thermal discomfort and the summer's first t... 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
An eight-year-old doesn't get excited by a glass case with a label. They need to press a button, reach into a terrarium, or watch a T-Rex swing its tail. Bucharest has, in 2026, a growing list of spaces built exactly for that — not classic museums, but places where learning happens by accident, whil... Read more
The demolition of Progresul Station in Bucharest's Sector 4 took place without any public event to mark it. Machinery moved into the building one morning in July 2026, and what remained in public view was only a handful of photos, circulated quickly on railway enthusiast groups, accompanied by comme... Read more
The 2026 admissions season brings the highest number of applicants Bucharest has seen in years, driven by a graduating high school class nearly 20% larger than previous years, new programs tied to artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, and growing pressure on young people to secure a solid posit... Read more
Sinaia has a casino built in 1912, designed from scratch after the Monte Carlo model, with gardens and a mountain view. Constanța has its own on the seafront, commissioned by the city council in 1902 and designed by architect Petre Antonescu in Art Nouveau style, finished around 1910. Bucharest, the... Read more
The city's own planning document, the Velo Masterplan, gives an exact figure: 25.38 kilometers of functional bike lanes across the entire city. Another 30.92 kilometers exist on paper and on asphalt, but fail to meet minimum standards and need work before anyone can safely ride on them. The gap betw... Read more