Autumn 2025 turns Bucharest into a sports stage with two major running events. For a few days, the city gives way to thousands of steps, either across its central boulevards or along its forest trails.Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest City Marathon – October 11–12, 2025This is Romania’s most important running event and one of the largest in Eastern Europe....
In Bucharest, RCA insurance has become a sensitive topic. Heavy traffic, frequent accidents, high repair costs, and an enormous number of cars all push premiums upward, regardless of the insurer. Still, not all vehicles are treated the same: some models remain consistently cheaper to insure, while others fall into the “high-cost” category.To unders...
Interwar Bucharest woke up every morning with the newspaper over coffee and an unstoppable desire to find out who had compromised themselves the night before. The society journalists of the era mastered a refined, almost surgical art of revealing scandalous stories without mentioning any names, of destroying reputations while maintaining the appear...
We all admit it: Bucharest is a city that exhausts and enchants you in equal measure. There are days when the traffic on Iuliu Maniu or the crowds at Unirii make you open real estate websites, searching for a quiet little house in the mountains or a bohemian apartment in Oradea. It’s a thought that crosses the mind of every Bucharest resident at le...
Bucharest is a city where the tradition of shopping at the market continues to be appreciated, despite the rapid development of major supermarket chains. For many residents of the capital, agri-food markets remain the ideal place to find seasonal fruits and vegetables, authentic dairy products, fresh meat, honey, homemade preserves, and other delic...
In the heart of Bucharest, at the intersection of Calea Victoriei and Episcopiei Street, stands today one of the capital’s best-known hotels: Athénée Palace, which became part of the InterContinental brand in 2023. The building is connected to the diplomatic, political, and social history of the city, to foreign journalists, businesspeople, artists...
The capital is seen more as a 30-minute city, according to Bucharest residents surveyed in the Friendly City Index, an initiative comparing modern cities in Central and Eastern Europe.Bucharest, 28.08.2025 – Residents of 54 cities across nine Central and Eastern European countries were asked how long it usually takes them to reach most of their des...
Bucharest has become, in recent years, an increasingly interesting gastronomic destination for lovers of Japanese cuisine. From sushi and sashimi to ramen, tempura, teppanyaki, gyoza, and dishes inspired by Japanese home cooking, the capital's culinary scene is now diverse enough for every meal to become a small journey into Japanese food cult...
Bucharest has always been a city of contrasts. Between the elegance of inter-war architecture and the brutal transition of communism, between the bohemian Little Paris and the gray of the industrial age, the city has undergone dramatic transformations, but has always kept a unique spirit. If you walked its streets at different times in the 20th cen...
The charm of Bucharest doesn’t lie in the grand, but in the fragments. Not in sweeping squares or glamorous boulevards, but in the small moments that nearly slip past you. It’s a city of quiet repetitions, of daily habits that, when truly seen, take on the shape of rituals. Here, the ordinary turns into poetry—but only if you have the patience to n...