Articles (1839)

Bucharest beneath the asphalt. The story of the underground passages that changed the capital

Bucharest is usually seen at boulevard level: traffic, busy intersections, old buildings, apartment blocks, squares and people in a hurry. But the city also has a life beneath the surface, less spectacular at first glance, yet essential to the way Romania’s capital functions. Underground passages, whether pedestrian, road-based or connected to metr...

Beer in Bucharest in the middle of summer? An old-time tradition, a modern-day pleasure

In Bucharest, summer has its own sound: misted glasses, full terraces, fans slowly turning, tables set out on the street and conversations stretching late into the night. Among all these small urban rituals, a cold beer has remained one of the city’s simple pleasures. It is not just a seasonal drink, but part of the way Romania’s capital has lived...

TOP 7 photos of Bucharest that make tourists want to visit Romania’s capital

Bucharest is one of those cities that is not always easy to understand at first glance, but it can quickly win visitors over through images. It does not have just one official postcard view, but several different faces: monumental buildings, elegant streets, old passages, cafés, spectacular bookstores, large parks and places that still preserve the...

Romania has the lowest prices in the EU. What this means for tourists and foreigners considering Bucharest

Bucharest remains one of the most accessible European capitals for tourists who want to discover a large city without the budgets usually needed in northern or western Europe. The latest Eurostat data, analysed by Euronews, shows that Romania has the lowest prices in the European Union compared with the EU average. This information is relevant not...

Icoanei Church, a 300-Year Story. The Historic Monument Is Today One of the Most Beautiful Churches in the Capital

Few places of worship in Bucharest manage to combine history, spirituality, and architectural heritage as harmoniously as Icoanei Church. Built on the site of an old wooden hermitage and having gone through numerous trials over time, the church is today one of the Capital's most valuable historic monuments. Its story begins more than three centurie...

Bucharest's Festivals as a Social Phenomenon: Why People Come Back Every Summer

Every summer, Bucharest sends tens of thousands of people into fields, forests and old aristocratic estates on the outskirts of the city. They pay a few hundred lei, spend three or four days in the heat, sleep very little and return to work on Monday morning with their voices gone. Then they do it all again the following year.The phenomenon deserve...

Pache Protopopescu, the mayor who had the courage to reshape Bucharest

At the end of the 19th century, Bucharest was growing at the pace of a city that had bought itself European shoes but still walked through mud in them. Horse-drawn trams squeezed between houses, the streets preserved the crooked outlines of old neighbourhoods, and the municipal administration worked with limited resources for the ambitions of a you...

June 25, 1984, the day Bucharest tried to outshine Paris in grandeur: construction began on the House of the People and the boulevard meant to surpass the Champs-Élysées

On June 25, 1984, the Ceaușescu regime officially marked the beginning of one of the largest urban projects in Bucharest’s history: the construction of the House of the Republic, later known as the House of the People and today as the Palace of Parliament, along with “Victory of Socialism” Boulevard, now Unirii Boulevard. It was the moment when the...

She Poured a Sandal Full of Sand on His Head and From Then On Fell Irremediably in Love with Him. Cella Serghi, Camil Petrescu and the Mischievous Whim

Cella Serghi lived one of the most stirring love stories in Romanian literature. A love that was never fulfilled, yet became the source of a remarkable literary work and of a sensitivity that accompanied her throughout her entire existence. Behind her novels, the pages of her memoirs, and her strong female characters lies an old wound that never he...

The Cooling Machine. How Air Conditioning Changed Bucharest's Summer

There's a sound that replaced another one. The old one was the sound of summer through an open window: voices, cars, footsteps on asphalt, neighborhood dogs, sometimes a radio. The new one is a mechanical hum, constant, coming from outside — the compressors of outdoor air conditioning units, mounted on facades, balconies, and pavements, lined up ac...