without her, Romania’s King, her son, in times of turmoil and bitter suffering, would have probably failed to serve his country with the wis

Virginia Andreescu Haret (1894-1962) made her feminist statement through the silent power of concrete: she engineered enduring urban beauty

It is no exaggeration to state that Romanians experienced a lasting collective trauma inflicted during 42 years of communism, which

The perfect pseudonym for a polymath princess born in Bucharest and hailed as one of 19th-century Europe’s most impressive cosmopolitans.

It was Iulia who dictated to him, he claimed, the detailed architectural plans for the castle, the construction of which he carefully coordi

Banknotes, of course, carry financial power. But they’re also indicative of what a country values in terms of achievement, which is in turn

Instead, Vladimir Ghika - prince, priest and martyr - followed charity ideals: he chose the vocational path of good-doing

you’ll soon set eyes on a smaller castle (or larger villa) which calls for love at first sight: it is charming without being imposing, grace

the Romanian walked 100,000 kilometres around the world for six years, dressed in folk costumes and wearing peasant sandals,

Born in 1882 in the capital city of Oltenia, Nicolae Titulescu is undoubtedly that region’s most internationally influential native. The only twice-elected P...

Out of a love of sea a star-bound house was born: the Astronomical Observatory in Bucharest. It was 1908 when Admiral Vasile Urseanu was elected the Presiden...

“Stout, with unruly short greying hair, sharp blue eyes beneath the low eyebrows and a fascinating smile . . ., she made everyone feel that they were dealing...

They say he was the mastermind behind Romania’s Crown during the reign of King Ferdinand and Queen Marie, the great unifiers of the country. They say he char...

Romania’s Jewish community has dwindled dramatically over the past decades: while in 1930 more than 4% of the country’s population was Jewish, ranking third ...

When talking about Hungarian ethnics in Romania, one encounters a problem of scope and of historical positioning. Most of Romania’s Hungarian ethnics come fr...

“When the Germans came to the country . . . they built a city for the Romanians, they taught them professions, they gave them land when they were fighting . ...

In her Memoirs, Zoe Cămărăşescu, a Romanian aristocrat whose mother had been a lady-in-waiting at the belle époque Court of King Carol I and Queen Elisabeth,...

100 years of Romania. What Romanians have done for their country this past century in areas ranging from the humanities to science and sports has drawn a gre...

There is little doubt that modern Romanian cultivated painting stemmed from religious painting done around and for monasteries by artists known as “masters” w...

There’s a Romanian saying, “Tot ce-i trei e bun” (“Good things go in threes”). It means that you have to try something twice and then once more to succeed - ...