Articles (1839)

Constructorul Solness at the Bulandra Theatre: Ibsen and the Fear of Stepping Down from One’s Own Pedestal

Henrik Ibsen remains one of those playwrights who seem contemporary regardless of the century. He wrote about people living in late nineteenth-century Norway, about houses with imposing drawing rooms, carefully polished reputations, and families that swept their secrets under the carpet with a discipline worthy of the state archives. And yet his pl...

Progresul, Demolished by Progress. How Bucharest Lost a Nearly 70-Year-Old Railway Station

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 comments with the tone of a hastily written obituary. T...

Bucharest's most sought-after faculties in 2026: the numbers behind the competition

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 position in the job market early. At the University of...

High School Admission 2026: Ranking of the Best High Schools in Bucharest After the First Allocation. Top 20 Specializations

The first computerized allocation of the 2026 high school admission process has once again confirmed the dominant position of Bucharest’s leading national colleges. “Gheorghe Lazăr” National College, “Sfântul Sava” National College, “Tudor Vianu” National College of Computer Science and “Spiru Haret” National College are once again at the top of th...

Why Bucharest never had its own "Monte Carlo," unlike Sinaia or Constanța

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 capital, the city with the largest concentration...

10 Niche Museums in Bucharest for People Tired of Predictable Itineraries

Sometimes, Bucharest hides its most interesting things in places you may pass twenty times without ever looking up. In an apartment on Lipscani Street, you can step into the living room of a bourgeois family from a century ago; in a house near Carol Park, you enter the world of a couple of artists and diplomats; while on Parfumului Street, tens of...

A trade on the verge of extinction. Probably the last bookbinder in Bucharest

On Oboga Street, in a workshop you only get to see if you call ahead, someone is still doing by hand something Bucharest, by and large, has forgotten how to do: an old book gets repaired thread by thread, not thrown out or scanned.The trade is called antique bookbinding and restoration, and the city has, based on everything you can search for today...

The Dâmbovița River, from a Source of Disease to Urban Splendour: How the River That Periodically Flooded Bucharest Was Channelled, and What Plans Exist for Its Banks

The Dâmbovița crosses Bucharest with the disciplined air of a civil servant who has memorised his route. It enters from the west, passes neighbourhoods, universities, ministries and apartment blocks, then leaves the city towards the south-east, confined between concrete slabs and boulevards where traffic behaves as though the river were illegally o...

Bucharest, a bike friendly city? 56 kilometers of lanes, half of them blocked by cars

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 between those two numbers is really the gap between th...

The Eva Building on Magheru Boulevard: The Story of the Store Where Communist Bucharest Went Looking for Elegance

On Magheru Boulevard, buildings are rarely granted the privilege of anonymity. Some bear the name of a cinema, others that of a hotel, an institution, or a company that vanished long ago but left behind an urban label more durable than any illuminated sign. The Eva Building belongs to the category of buildings christened by commerce. The store on t...