Romania’s First Unifier: Michael the Brave
This year Romanians are celebrating 100 years since the Great Union. Back in 1918, King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Romania saw their...
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Ilinca Stroe
Sep 26, 20189 min read
Romania’s Treasures: the Entrepreneurs
Looking into entrepreneurship in contemporary Romania can be a bit like entering perilous territory. As a recent documentary shows...
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Ilinca Stroe
Aug 22, 201813 min read
Romania’s Treasures: the Actors
If we were to search back in time for images of the first Romanian actors, we might well have to put up with scattered blurry memories of...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jul 30, 201814 min read
Romania’s Treasures: the Humanists
Any piece of writing dealing with the humanities must necessarily start out by reminding its readers that the status quo of the...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jul 18, 20184 min read
Peaceful Weekend Getaways: Three Monasteries
Personally, I love visiting cathedrals. Integrated into the urban landscape and yet cutting out a section of it which is emotionally...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jul 12, 201819 min read
Romania’s Treasures: the Athletes
How long have Romanians done sports? That can be answered highly accurately: not as long as the Greeks. For we didn’t invent the Olympic...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jul 4, 20183 min read
Dead Funny Up North: Săpânţa’s Unique Cemetery
It probably takes comedian Hugh Laurie’s straight face to be able to announce serenely, “This lovely summer we warmly recommend that you...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jun 27, 201814 min read
Romania’s Treasures: the Film Makers
Popcorn and movies – such a match made in heaven. Don’t ask when Romanians took to popcorn just to find out when cinema appeared in this...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jun 20, 201811 min read
Romania’s Treasures: the Scientists
Scientists tend to be eccentric figures. Especially in popularisation articles like this one. Some Romanian scientists over the last two...
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Veronica Negru
Jun 15, 20182 min read
Comana Natural Park
Only 40 kilometres away from Bucharest there’s a fairytale place called Comana - ideal to escape the crowded, suffocating city. At Comana...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jun 13, 201811 min read
Romania’s Treasures: the Writers
Once upon a time, Romanians put pen to paper... To be more specific, it was 1521 when the first known piece of writing in Romanian (with...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jun 6, 20186 min read
Romania’s Treasures: the Inventors
What have Romanians been up to, innovation-wise, over the last two centuries? In no particular order but some for-fun categorisation, let...
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Ilinca Stroe
May 16, 20184 min read
Romania’s Treasures: the Musicians
There can be little doubt that Romania’s contribution to the World’s music is fairly substantial, as well as wide-ranging, for an...
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Ilinca Stroe
Apr 26, 20183 min read
Today’s a Little Time Machine: What Romania Makes of Its Communist Past
Weekend holidaymakers and locals strolling on Bucharest’s Calea Victoriei on 1 April 2018 experienced the thrill of losing their way...
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Ilinca Stroe
Nov 9, 20174 min read
1917: Romania’s First Female Second Lieutenant [1]
How did she, one of eight siblings born to villager parents in Oltenia, (still) a poor region of her country, become the woman that the...
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Veronica Negru
Oct 31, 20172 min read
Dracula`s Legend
Vlad Tepeș (Vlad the Impaler), by his real name Vlad Dracula, born in 1431 in the fortress city of Sighișoara, was Voivode (Prince) of...
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Oana Barbu
Oct 10, 20174 min read
From the People’s House to the Palace of the Parliament
It is said that controversial people bring about controversial histories. And controversial histories give birth to equally controversial...
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Oana Barbu
Oct 3, 20173 min read
Florica Maria Sas – from the Pasha’s Harem to the British Royal Court
Have you ever woken up in the morning searching for a reason to stand up, go to work, face the world? Have you ever thought of giving up,...
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Iulia Andreescu
Sep 8, 20172 min read
Maria Tănase
If the French have Édith Piaf, and the Portuguese have Amália Rodrigues, Romanians have Maria Tănase. She was both a singer and an...
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Iulia Andreescu
Aug 31, 20175 min read
Marie - the Queen of Romania
One of the most prominent and loved feminine characters in the history of Romania is Queen Marie (Regina Maria). With a strong...
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