The Road · 4 min
In June, the bypass was an empty road seen from above the traffic jam on DN1. On Thursday, Oct. 1, it opened. I drove it on Friday, south to north, with the camera running: about seven minutes, from DN1 back to DN1.
by Redacția RomâniaFrumoasă · Oct 5, 2026
HAPPENING NOW · REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION FORUM
It's not the construction that takes forever — it's the paperwork
Adi Coco · 22 min
At the Table · București · Shaorma Fest
Nadia Eperjessy ate her first shawarma stumbling out of a club in Constanța about twenty years ago. Today she's a nutritionist and part of the team behind Shaorma Fest, billed as Romania's first festival dedicated to shawarma. What's changed since then isn't the recipe — it's who owns it.
Adi Coco · 6 min
A road · Neamț · The Bicaz Gorge
Almost 56.5 kilometres between Bicaz and Gheorgheni, through the Bicaz Gorge and past Lacu Roșu, along a valley that was moving freight long before there was any asphalt. What went down here, and what comes up today.
Adi Coco · 12 min
A Place · Sibiu · Cârța
On the DN1 highway between Sibiu and Făgăraș stands the only Cistercian abbey on present-day Romanian soil with its medieval walls still intact. Nearly everything told about it is false — including the part about the film. What actually happened there is less dramatic, and far more interesting.
Adi Coco · 22 min
Reportage · Street Art · StreetWise 2026 · Pasajul Lujerului
Over a hundred artists spent three days painting the railway underpass beneath Lujerului, at the second edition of the StreetWise festival. When they arrived, the wall was blue: nothing from the previous year's work had survived.
Adi Coco · 19 min
Analysis · Infrastructure · Water & Energy
The country's tallest dam stands in a Retezat valley that almost no one visits. Romania's most photographed lake spent the past year as an empty basin. And our place in Europe is exactly what the numbers say — no more, no less.
Adi Coco · 20 min
Redacția RomâniaFrumoasă · 5 min
A Place · Sibiu · Cârța
Adi Coco · 22 min
DEFENSE · AIR FORCE
Adi Coco · 15 min
Bear Country Report · Argeș–Sibiu
Adi Coco · 15 min
A Heritage · The Romanian Language
Redacția RomâniaFrumoasă · 19 min
One Person · București
Adi Coco · 15 min
Reportage · Cluj · Hungarian Cultural Days
Adi Coco · 10 min
The Notebook · opinion
Adi Coco · 7 min
Bear Country Report · Argeș–Sibiu
Adi Coco · 15 min
A Place · Suceava · Dârmoxa
Adi Coco · 7 min
A Road · Constanța · Murfatlar
Adi Coco · 7 min
A Person · Mureș · Idicel-Pădure
Adi Coco · 28 min
From public archives · Photographed in 1925
![Alba-Iulia [material iconografic] : Teatrul Carajiale](/api/img-proxy?src=http%3A%2F%2Fdspace.bcucluj.ro%2Fbitstream%2F123456789%2F40258%2F1%2FBCUCLUJ_FCS_ILUSTR_387.jpg)
The Caragiale Theatre in Alba Iulia, preserved on a color postcard from 1925, stands as a statement of civic architecture in a city that had become, only a few years earlier, the symbol of Romania's Great Union. The card was published by Bernard Weiss, one of the small local publishers who methodically documented the urban landscapes of interwar Romania. Its format — 9×14 cm, color print — reflects the commercial standards of the era, when such images circulated among families and institutions as testimony to provincial modernization.
Lucian Blaga Central University Library, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
