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What does childhood look like between Bucharest apartment blocks in 2025? Games, fears and reinvented freedoms

Urban childhood has changed. Not just because the apartment blocks no longer look like they did in the ’80s or ’90s, but because the way children grow, interact, and play has been profoundly shaped by the rhythm, spaces, and fears of the contemporary city. Bucharest in 2025 offers a different kind of childhood: more connected, but more controlled;...

Bucharest’s hidden palaces: beyond the Palace of the Parliament

What do the city's forgotten buildings reveal about power, memory, and identity?When you say “palace” in Bucharest, the mind jumps—almost reflexively—to the Palace of the Parliament. Monumental, immobile, overwhelming—it has become synonymous with the idea of “grandeur,” although it is more accurately a symbol of excess that was never ours, but bel...

What does it mean to be a "Bucharester" in 2025?

Do we become Bucharest locals through our ID address or through the way we adapt to the city?In 2025, being a “Bucharester” is no longer a geographical label—it’s a process. A mix of wear and negotiation. Of survival instinct and longing for belonging. In truth, being a Bucharester today means, more than ever, to live in-between—between two jobs, b...

Where does childhood smell like bread? Bucharest’s most beloved artisan bakeries

In an age of fast deliveries and products packaged in silence, there are still places in Bucharest where bread is made patiently, and its scent makes you slow down. These bakeries don’t just sell bread — they celebrate it. We visited the most sought-after ones and discovered not only artisan products but stories that stay with you, whether you’re n...

The hidden world of insects, showcased in a macro photography exhibition at the “Antipa” Museum

The macro photography exhibition titled “The Face of the Beast. Perfection Lies in the Details” will be open from July 10 to August 31 at the “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History.Signed by photographer Claudiu Mihai, The Face of the Beast reveals stunning details of insects – gem-like compound eyes, strong mandibles, delicate antenna...

What kind of person are you, depending on the district you live in?

We all say we live “in Bucharest,” but we know that means completely different things depending on the district. It’s one thing to live in a historic building in Cotroceni and something else entirely to live in Titan, Drumul Taberei, or Rahova. Every part of the city has its own pace, atmosphere, and neighborhood rituals. Districts in Bucharest are...

What makes Bucharest different from other cities in Romania. The open city that doesn’t wait for you

Bucharest is not the kind of story that wins you over from the first page. It’s not like Sibiu, where the historic center looks lifted from a carefully curated travel brochure. It’s not like Cluj, where universities and the tech industry have polished a “clean and creative” European image. And it doesn’t have the calm of Timișoara or the mountain s...

Bucharest’s cemeteries – silent museums we avoid seeing

In a city that reinvents itself chaotically—where buildings disappear overnight and neighborhoods shift before we even understand them—Bucharest’s cemeteries are among the few places that remain. Not just intact, but alive in their own quiet way. They are spaces where memory breathes through stone, greenery, and forgotten names. And as unusual as i...

From Belle Époque to brutalism: Bucharest’s architecture highlights

Bucharest is a city that resembles no one—not even itself. If you walk through it slowly, and truly look—not just glance—you’ll see a city that reveals itself like a book rewritten again and again, where every era has left its mark without erasing the previous one. Between the delicate French charm of the early 20th century and the heavy rawness of...

When the city melts: how Bucharest copes with extreme heat

In the middle of summer, Bucharest isn't just hot. It's hostile. Sidewalks turn into radiating surfaces, trees—where they still exist—can’t keep up with the heat trapped between buildings, and the city breathes in short, heavy waves of warm air that no longer dissipate by night. Heatwaves are no longer outliers; they’ve become a predictable urban p...