Green Hours is one of Bucharest’s most enduring independent cultural venues, with a well-defined identity at the crossroads of jazz, contemporary theatre, and alternative urban spirit. Located at Calea Victoriei 120, in Sector 1, Green began in the 1990s as a jazz café and gradually evolved into a multidisciplinary cultural space, now best known fo...
Teatrelli is an alternative artistic laboratory, launched in 2013 by CREART – Bucharest’s Center for Creation, Art & Tradition. Located in Piața Lahovari 7, its modular setup allows for flexible staging—from classic theatre to experimental performance, contemporary dance, and multimedia installations. With around 94 seats, the venue creates an...
In a city that often buries its past under fresh concrete, Casa Miclescu remains a stubborn relic—a rare survivor of a vanished world. Nestled on Kiseleff Boulevard, one of Bucharest’s most elegant arteries, this early 20th-century mansion, built in the austere elegance of Neo-Romanian style, was more than a residence. It was a social epicenter for...
Located right on Calea Griviței, in the northern part of the capital, , Hotel Dunărea stands sealed shut. It’s a massive, decaying structure—peeling facade, shattered windows, metal barricades at the entrance. Once a functioning state-run hotel, now a long-abandoned carcass, neglected by every institution that should’ve dealt with it.
Built in the...
For many, Gara de Nord is their first contact with Bucharest. And unfortunately, not the best one.
The main building, inaugurated in 1872, was meant to be a gateway worthy of a European capital. And for a while, it was. Today, it’s a mix of the old and the decayed—cracked walls, crumbling plaster, and an overall sense of improvisation that reminds...
Henri Coandă International Airport, widely known as Otopeni, is Romania’s busiest and most important airport, and the only one handling long-haul flights consistently. With over 14 million passengers per year, it should operate as a modern regional hub. In practice, it remains a transit point with aging infrastructure, limited space, and patchwork...
In western Bucharest, at the end of a long avenue bearing its name, Ghencea Cemetery stretches out as more than just a burial ground. It is a divided landscape of memory, split physically and symbolically into two distinct zones: Ghencea Civil and Ghencea Military.
The civil side is dense, disorganized, and chaotic. Narrow paths weave through a pat...
Cinema Elvire Popesco has long been the cornerstone of arthouse cinema in Bucharest. Located inside the French Institute on Dacia Boulevard, it stands out as one of the few venues that have preserved a distinct cultural identity in a landscape dominated by multiplexes. Its carefully curated program includes auteur films, festival selections, origin...
Cinema Muzeul Țăranului, also known as Cinema MȚR, is one of Bucharest’s key venues for independent cinema, documentaries, and contemporary Romanian film. Located inside the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, on Monetăriei Street near Piața Victoriei, the cinema has a clearly defined profile: auteur filmmaking, social and political themes, cu...
In a city where historic buildings are often left to decay or repurposed without vision, ARCUB Gabroveni stands out as a rare example of meaningful restoration. Housed in a fully renovated 18th-century inn, it now serves as a multidisciplinary cultural hub in the heart of Bucharest’s Old Town. Operated by ARCUB (the Cultural Center of Bucharest Mun...