Humanitas Cişmigiu is located in the former reception area of the historic Hotel Palace at 38 Regina Elisabeta Boulevard, Sector 5, just steps away from Cișmigiu Gardens. After years of vacancy, it was redesigned and reopened in 2012 as a contemporary bookstore featuring distinctive boat‑shaped lighting fixtures and a spacious, naturally lit interi...
Humanitas Magheru, located at 36 Nicolae Bălcescu Boulevard, sits in Sector 1 of Bucharest on the prominent Magheru Boulevard, between Piața Romană and Universitate . Opened in 2017, this branch combines a bookshop with a Japanese store called Takumi, offering traditional Japanese crafts under the same roof.
Spread across approximately 150 m², the...
Anthony Frost English Bookshop was for many years a unique cultural landmark in Bucharest—the only bookstore dedicated entirely to English-language books, founded in 2007 on Calea Victoriei. Small but welcoming, the shop curated a carefully selected range of literature, nonfiction, art, history, comics, and children’s books, all handpicked by found...
Kyralina is the only bookstore in Bucharest specialized in French literature. The space stands out for its warm and intimate atmosphere, filled with light wood tones and the subtle scent of freshly printed paper.
The neatly arranged shelves hold over 5,000 titles in the original French (and occasionally German), along with modern translations. The...
Antic ExLibris, located on 23 Doamnei Street, is one of the largest and most visited second-hand bookstores in Bucharest. With an impressive stock of over 150,000 volumes, it offers a diverse selection of books in both Romanian and English, most of them heavily discounted by up to 80–90%. You'll find everything from classic literature, history, and...
The Library of the Romanian Academy, located at 125 Calea Victoriei, is one of the most prestigious research and documentation institutions in Romania. Founded in 1867, it functions as an encyclopedic library, holding an extraordinary collection of over 14 million bibliographic units, including manuscripts, incunabula, rare editions, and personal a...
The Central University Library „Carol I”, located at 1 Boteanu Street, is the main academic library serving the University of Bucharest and the broader scholarly community. Housed in an imposing historic building, the library features both grand reading halls and modern study areas fitted with individual workstations and group rooms. Its collection...
Behind modest walls, the Armenian Cemetery in Sector 2 holds the lives and legacies of a community that quietly shaped the city. Here rest members of Bucharest’s Armenian minority—a group that, while small in number, played a significant role in the city’s economic and cultural development.
Many of those buried were merchants, craftsmen, tradespeop...
Polizu Maternity Hospital, part of the “Alessandrescu-Rusescu” National Institute for Mother and Child Health, is one of the oldest and most highly regarded obstetrics and gynecology units in Bucharest. The hospital offers a wide range of specialized medical services in childbirth, fertility, high-risk pregnancies, and neonatology, and is known for...
The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) is Romania’s leading institution dedicated to contemporary visual art. Located in the E-wing of the Palace of Parliament, the museum offers a spectacular space with large exhibition halls, a panoramic rooftop terrace, and a café, becoming in recent years a major destination for lovers of urban culture....