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The "Healthy Meal" 2026 Program in Bucharest: How to Find Out If Your Child's School Is Included

Starting the first week of September, more than 540,000 preschoolers and students nationwide receive a free hot meal or food package at school every day, through the national "Healthy Meal" (Masă sănătoasă) program. The 2026 budget stands at 1.531 billion lei, almost 40% more than last year. Most of that increase, though, comes from the larger numb...

What events are taking place in Bucharest during the weekend of August 28-30, 2026: plays, concerts, shows

The last full weekend of August 2026 comes with a rich program for Bucharest residents and tourists visiting the capital. Between August 28 and 30, the city hosts festivals, theatre performances, concerts, exhibitions, film screenings, parties, fairs, workshops for children and guided tours. The program published by Zile și Nopți for this weekend b...

The composer Gioachino Rossini, the genius of comic opera and Verdi’s mentor, has a street named after him in Bucharest

Few personalities in the history of music managed to transform opera into such a lively, spectacular and accessible show as Gioachino Rossini. An extremely prolific Italian composer, famous for his musical humor, dizzying rhythms and celebrated crescendos, Rossini dominated the European stage during the first part of the 19th century and became one...

The story of the Bucharest woman with a crystal-clear voice: Arta Florescu, one of Romania’s greatest opera performers

Arta Florescu remains one of the important figures of the Romanian lyrical stage of the 20th century, an artist who managed to combine vocal performance with stage intelligence, professional discipline and a vocation for teaching. The Bucharest-born soprano stood out not only through the beauty and breadth of her voice, but also through her ability...

What You Can Buy at the Artisans’ Fair on Calea Victoriei, on the Weekend of August 29–30, 2026

The last weekend of August comes with a special proposal for Bucharest residents who want to discover handmade objects, original creations and products made by local artists and small creators. On August 29 and 30, 2026, at Victoria Hub on Calea Victoriei, the Artisans’ Fair will take place, an event dedicated to handmade products and to the people...

The Incredible Story of Actor Radu Zaharescu: He Made His Debut “in Flames” on the “Tănase” Stage at Just 17

Few Romanian actors had such a spectacular beginning to their careers as Radu Zaharescu. His artistic story seems to have been taken from a comedy script: a teenager of only 17 was about to step onto the stage for the first time in a show by the famous troupe led by Constantin Tănase, but, right during the performance, the sets caught fire. Instead...

The Stars of Interwar Bucharest: Actor Ion Finteșteanu, from Opera to Becoming a Student of the Great Lucia Sturdza Bulandra

In the history of Romanian theater, there are actors whose careers go far beyond the boundaries of a single generation. Ion Finteșteanu was one of them. Actor, lyric artist, professor and film performer, he crossed more than six decades of Romanian stage history, becoming an emblematic presence of the Bucharest National Theater. He had a powerful v...

Football between the blocks: Bucharest's neighborhood sports scene before gyms existed

Rapid București started out as a team of railway workers. The club was founded on June 25, 1923, when workers from the Grivița Workshops met at the neighborhood's primary school and laid the groundwork for the association that would later become Rapid. There was no marketing plan behind it, just a group of people who worked together and wanted to p...

Bucharest Street Food Festival returns to Constitution Square on September 5-6

Unirii Boulevard and Constitution Square turn into festival ground again on the first weekend of September. Bucharest Street Food Festival runs on September 5 and 6, 2026, with dozens of food trucks and live music on stage both days.Organizers announced the event through a post on the festival's Facebook page. Stalls will serve dishes from differen...

Interview with Ciprian Sipoș, Green Designer: “Bucharest Needs More Than Green Concrete”

Bucharest is a city that changes every day, though not always in the direction we would like. Amid traffic, summer temperatures that are becoming increasingly difficult to bear, mounting pressure on green spaces, and neighborhoods built in haste, the question is no longer whether we need transformation, but how to achieve it while keeping the city...