Bucharest is a city with a rich history, full of contrasts, where architectural elegance intertwines with mysterious stories passed down from generation to generation. Beyond the crowded boulevards and modern buildings, the capital hides numerous legends about spirits, unexplained apparitions, and places said to be charged with strange energies. So...
The „Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest is a landmark institution in the field of medical education in Romania, with an impressive tradition spanning over 160 years. This university has been the birthplace of generations of doctors, pharmacists, dentists, and healthcare professionals who have made significant contributio...
At the end of the 19th century and in the first decades of the 20th century, Bucharest underwent one of the most spectacular periods in its history. The city, which until then still preserved many Eastern and Balkan features, began to modernize at an accelerated pace and to adopt Western urban models. This is the moment when the capital of Romania...
The name Mina Minovici is synonymous with the beginnings of Romanian forensic medicine, and his contributions remain fundamental to this field. Yet few people know the details of his professional journey, the difficult path he took to become one of the most important doctors of his time.Childhood and the making of an exceptional destinyHe was born...
Carol I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, born on April 10, 1839, in Sigmaringen, Germany, was the personality who would definitively shape the destiny of modern Romania. The second son of Prince Karl Anton and Princess Josephine of Baden, young Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig came from a prestigious dynastic family, related to the Royal House of...
Nicolae Basilescu, born on January 1, 1860, in Urlați, Prahova County, was not just a law professor or politician of his time. His life perfectly illustrated the profile of a complex man, with a vision far beyond the academic or political sphere. The beginnings of a remarkable destinyBasilescu trained as a jurist in Bucharest, and he completed his...
Bucharest has never been just a backdrop. Over the decades, the capital has played many roles — a Soviet city, a grimy Paris, a post-apocalyptic setting, and sometimes even a recognizable version of itself, seen through a raw, honest, or poetic lens. Film has offered the city the chance to reinvent its identity and hide its scars beneath the glow o...
Ana Racoviță, who would later become known as Ana Davila, was born in 1834 in Craiova, into a family that carried the noble heritage of the old Romanian boyar lineages. She was one of nine children born to Ana (Anca) Racoviță, née Golescu, and Alexandru Racoviță, a descendant of a family that had given several rulers to Wallachia and Moldavia. Thro...
In the history of interwar Bucharest, the Femina cinema occupies a special place, not only as a well-known and frequented screening hall, but also as a space in which film became a cultural instrument, an urban symbol, and a vehicle for the public legitimization of major national themes. Located, during the interwar period, at number 12 on Elisabet...
Bucharest preserves in the names of its streets the memory of personalities who contributed decisively to the development of Romanian medicine, culture or science. Among them is also Calistrat Grozovici, one of the pioneers of infectious medicine in Romania and founder of the infectious diseases school at Colentina Hospital. Although his name is no...