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What you need to know if you are a property owner renting out a home in Bucharest in 2026: rules, taxes, and obligations

Renting out a home in Bucharest remains an important source of income for many property owners, but 2026 comes with a clear set of tax rules that must be understood in order to avoid problems with the authorities. While the taxation of long-term rentals does not undergo major changes compared to previous years, significant adjustments apply to shor...

What Bucharest looks like for those who don’t go anywhere for Christmas

Every year, in the days leading up to Christmas, Bucharest begins to empty out gradually. Not abruptly, not in any dramatic way, but little by little, almost imperceptibly: an office that closes earlier than usual, a neighbour who disappears for a few days, a traffic lane that—unexpectedly—is no longer blocked. For those who stay in the city, the c...

How the Bucharest metro operates on Christmas and New Year’s Eve

Metrorex has announced the operating schedule of the Bucharest metro for the winter holiday period, which includes Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and the first days of the new year. According to the company, trains will run on all metro lines, including during the night of New Year’s Eve, with intervals adjusted to the specifics of each day.Christmas a...

The grand Alhambra. The history of the first summer theater in interwar Bucharest

At the beginning of the 20th century, Bucharest was living through one of the most intense periods of urban and cultural development. The city was shaping its identity as the “Little Paris,” and entertainment, art, and social life were becoming essential components of everyday existence. In this favorable context, the year 1916 marked a landmark mo...

The stars of interwar Bucharest: Silly Vasiliu, the Alhambra star whom her parents wanted to force into marriage at 14

Interwar Bucharest was a city of contrasts, elegance, and artistic effervescence, a true magnet for the talents of the time. In this vibrant cultural context, Silly Vasiliu established herself as one of the brightest stars of revue theatre and Romanian light music. A diva of the Romanian stage in a golden ageA theatre and film actress, singer, and...

Mite Kremnitz, the woman Mihai Eminescu is said to have loved more than Veronica Micle

The life of Mihai Eminescu was, beyond the brilliance of his literary work, a succession of inner turmoil, intense loves, and profound suffering. The national poet of the Romanians was not only a genial spirit, but also a vulnerable man, deeply marked by the emotional relationships that crossed his existence. Although literary history has almost ex...

How Santa Claus was transformed into Father Frost in communist Romania

Christmas represents one of the deepest and most meaningful holidays in Romanian culture, a blend of faith, tradition, family, and identity. During the communist regime, however, this celebration was subjected to a forced process of reinterpretation, as the authorities attempted to eliminate its religious dimension and adapt it to the official ideo...

Gellu Naum started writing poetry after he lost a bet and fell in love with his wife during a hypnosis session

There are lives that seem to be written in advance, following an implacable logic, and others that are built from happy accidents, from apparently minor gestures that end up changing a destiny forever. The story of Gellu Naum undoubtedly belongs to the second category. Poet, prose writer, and one of the central figures of Romanian surrealism, Gellu...

The first children’s hospital in Bucharest was founded in the Mahalaua de Piatră, in the house of doctor Iulius Barasch

In the first half of the 19th century, Wallachia was facing an extremely difficult sanitary situation, and Bucharest was no exception. The city was undergoing a slow process of modernization, yet hygiene conditions were poor, medical infrastructure was underdeveloped, and access to healthcare was limited for most of the population. In this context,...

The origins of native Christmas. King Carol I decorated the first Christmas tree in Romania’s history, in Bucharest

Christmas, as we know it today, with a decorated tree, gifts, and light, is the result of a long history in which local traditions met European influences. In the Romanian space, the symbolic moment of the appearance of the Christmas tree is closely linked to the accession to the throne of Carol I and to the beginning of an era of accelerated moder...