The European Capital of Culture in 2023 is Timisoara

It’s shaping up to be a bountiful cultural year in Romania! Our usual cultural landscape, which includes the George Enescu Music Festival and Art Encounters Biennial is much more intense and diverse this year, Today marks the Opening of the 2023 Timișoara European Capital of Culture Programme. Timișoara is the capital city of the historical […]

George Enescu International Festival reunites over 3500 artists One of the leading music festivals in the world is happening this fall in Romania! If you haven’t already heard of it, let us fill you in, because it’s a classic! Once every two years, thousands of musicians, the best orchestras and artists in the world enchant […]

If in some cultures tea is central for social relations and rituals evolved around tea ceremonies and gatherings, Romanians have a coffee ceremony.

Story by Warren Singh-Bartlett One of the most visually distinctive features of Transylvania’s Siebenbürgen (Seven Fortresses) are the guild towers that line their citadel walls. Sighișoara originally had 14, nine of which remain today while Sibiu, the centre of Saxon Transylvania and the region’s most important citadel, had a whopping 40 towers, each built, manned […]

Story by Warren Singh-Bartlett Some of Romania’s more remote villages can feel like living museums, looking much as they have for centuries, save for an occasional intrusion from the modern age and the odd coat of paint. This is particularly true out in the farmlands of Transylvania, where in the old Saxon villages, it’s still […]