Articles (1839)

How Bucharest Belle Époque was seen through the eyes of foreign travelers: fashionable promenades in a Frenchified city

In the 19th century and at the beginning of the Romanian Belle Époque, Bucharest was a city of spectacular contrasts, of ostentatiously displayed luxury and of a continuous desire for westernization. The foreigners who arrived in the capital of Wallachia discovered an exotic city, situated between East and West, where French elegance permanently mi...

Symbols of Bucharest: Sala Luceafărul, Cinema PRO and the history of one of the most popular cinemas in the Capital

Bucharest has always been a city of contrasts, of interwar elegance and continuous transformations, and its cultural history is closely connected to the great cinema and performance halls that defined entire generations. Among these emblematic places is also Sala Luceafărul, known over time as Cinema Luceafărul or Cinema PRO. For many people from B...

24/7 Pharmacies in Bucharest 2026: The Complete List by District

A headache at midnight, a child with a fever at 3 a.m., a forgotten prescription — there are moments when you need a pharmacy open and have no time to search. This list centralises the 24/7 pharmacies in Bucharest, organised by district, with addresses verified from primary sources wherever possible.Important note: Opening hours can change at any t...

What salaries Romanians had during the interwar period. From ministers and university professors to unskilled laborers, postal workers, and agricultural workers

In period photographs, interwar Romania has the air of an urban Sunday, with neatly placed hats, uniforms with shiny buttons, gentlemen in stiff suits, ladies wearing gloves, serious schoolchildren, and clerks who seem to have signed ordinary documents with the same gravity with which the country’s leaders signed peace treaties. Behind this eleganc...

Bucharest by bicycle in 2026: routes, dangers and useful tips

Bucharest has changed considerably in recent years, and the bicycle has become for many residents of the Capital more than just a simple means of relaxation. In 2026, more and more Bucharest residents choose to travel on two wheels in order to avoid suffocating traffic, the crowding in public transport and the high costs associated with traveling b...

The great writer Panait Istrati, the “street kid from Brăila” with only four grades, has a street bearing his name in Bucharest

The destiny of Panait Istrati seems taken from an adventure novel. Born into a poor family, without solid education and without real support from society, he managed to become one of the most appreciated Romanian writers abroad. His life was marked by hardships, endless travels, illness, despair and dramatic suicide attempts, yet precisely these ex...

The fairs of Phanariot Bucharest: the floating markets and commercial centers where Romanians found goods from all the countries of the world

In the Bucharest of the 18th century, trade represented one of the main activities that animated the life of the city. The capital of Wallachia was already an important economic hub in southeastern Europe, located at the intersection of the commercial roads that connected the Ottoman Empire to the center of the continent. During the Phanariot perio...

How Bucharest evolved during the interwar period, when the population grew by 127%, the city learned to develop vertically, and new neighborhoods appeared

The history of a city marks moments when everything seems to explode at once: people arrive in waves, houses spring up like mushrooms after rain, new streets are drawn over former garbage pits with a speed that leaves you speechless, and so on. Bucharest in the interwar period experienced exactly such a moment, an expansion so spectacular that it s...

Bucharest and Pets: A City That Loves Without Keeping Score

Romania, European leader in cats and dogs. What life with furry companions looks like in the capitalIf you have the impression that Bucharest has become a city increasingly full of dogs on leashes, cats at windows, and aquariums in living rooms, you are not wrong. The capital has a fondness for company with fur, scales, or feathers — and the number...

Who Was Constantin Buzdugan and Why Does a Street in Bucharest Bear His Name

Few residents of Bucharest know who the man was whose name appears on a discreet street in the northern part of the Capital. Constantin Z. Buzdugan was not a politician, a military leader, or a great industrialist, but one of the most complex and cultivated personalities of Romanian intellectual life at the end of the nineteenth century and the beg...