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The Sea Among the Mountains: Lake Izvorul Muntelui, 65 Years After the Flood

15 min
The road
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The Intersection That Waited 30 Years

6 min
The notebook
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The Village That Doesn't Want to Be Found

4 min
At the table
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The Soup That Never Leaves the Village

3 min
Happening
Cavalerii pe cai albi printre oameni

In Sighișoara, the Middle Ages Last Three Days a Year

8 min
A person
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One Man and a Guitar

2 min
A number
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How many free-roaming horses are left on the Delta's most famous sandbank — and why no one really knows the answer

13 min

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The Notebook · Mureș · Idicel-Pădure

The Village That Doesn't Want to Be Found

An hour lost without signal in the Gurghiu Mountains — and 900 kg of eggplant roasting over a wood fire at the end of it.

Adi Coco · 4 min

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At the Table · Bukovina · Ciocănești

The Soup That Never Leaves the Village

A "tradition" six years old, invented by a monk who wasn't allowed meat, trademarked at the patent office and served only in the village with 600 painted houses. We ate the ciocăneșteană soup on home ground — 39 lei a bowl, story included.

A "tradition" six years old, invented by a monk who wasn't allowed meat, registered as a trademark and served only in the commune with 600 painted houses. We ate ciorba ciocăneșteană on home ground — 39 lei a bowl, story included. --- There are traditions lost in the mists of time, and there are traditions with a…

Adi Coco · 3 min

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The knights on white horses among the people

*Happening Now · Sighișoara Medievală Festival, 31st Edition*

In Sighișoara, the Middle Ages Last Three Days a Year

A slave market, knights on white horses, drums, noblewomen, and a fiery end of the world

Adi Coco · 8 min

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Interview · The Psychology of Fear

You Get Obedience. You Don't Get Respect.

Why do we stay where it hurts? A conversation with psychologist Sorin Faur — about the fear that runs our jobs, our relationships and our politics, and about how to take your life back from it.

Adi Coco · 72 min

Three F-16s above the Monument of the Heroes of the Air. Photo: AdiCoco.com

Romanian Aviation Day and Air Force Day

The Second Country in the World to Take War into the Air

Romania deployed aircraft on military missions as early as 1910 — second in the world, after France. On Aviation Day: the story of those beginnings and the morning Bucharest looked up.

Adi Coco · 6 min

Marty Cintron, No Mercy, on stage — a man and a guitar. Photo: AdiCoco.com

One Man and a Guitar

One Man and a Guitar

Marty Cintron — No Mercy

Adi Coco · 2 min

A herd of horses gathered on the bank of a Delta channel, reflected in the water, at dusk.

915 · The free horses of the Delta

How many free-roaming horses are left on the Delta's most famous sandbank — and why no one really knows the answer

The Delta's most famous sandbank holds 915 free horses. Maybe more. No one knows for sure.

Adi Coco · 13 min

Rows of young dancers in folk costume holding their open palms out towards the tall Sânziene fire, on the street in Borșa

MIDSUMMER NIGHT · MARAMUREȘ

Borșa — The Fire That Burns Once a Year

Torchlight descends from the hills once a year — from Swan Lake to a river of living flame

Adi Coco · 14 min

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Where to Eat the Best Mici in Bucharest: 10 Places Where Mici Became Legend

Redacția RomâniaFrumoasă · 5 min

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ANALYSIS · TAXATION AND WORK IN THE EU

Six Plumbers, €120,000, and Six Very Different Europes

Redacția RomâniaFrumoasă · 9 min

MiG-21 LanceR — aircraft 6196 in flight through clouds

DEFENSE · AIR FORCE

From MiG-21 to F-35 in Fifteen Years

Adi Coco · 15 min

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REPORTAGE

When Will We Drive from Constanța to Arad Entirely on Motorway: Where Work Is Underway on the A1

Adi Coco · 4 min

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Orange Tandem hall, Bucharest — wide shot of the conference with the full poster and the audience in front.

HAPPENING NOW · Confcast

The Podcast, Reflected.

Adi Coco · 18 min

Comarnic Bypass, aerial view with the bridge over the Prahova River and the railway

ROADS · PRAHOVA · INFRASTRUCTURE

Comarnic, Summer 2026: Six Kilometers of Bypass, Thirty Minutes of Gridlock

Redacția RomâniaFrumoasă · 7 min

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HAPPENING NOW · BUCUREȘTI · TECHNOLOGY

Who Decides When AI Can No Longer Be Fired?

Adi Coco · 12 min

MiG-21 LanceR — aircraft 6196 in flight through clouds

DEFENSE · AIR FORCE

From MiG-21 to F-35 in Fifteen Years

Adi Coco · 15 min

Wide view of the village from above — DN13 cutting through the centre, Saxon houses with red roofs aligned

ONE VILLAGE · MUREȘ · SASCHIZ

One Village — Saschiz, Mureș

Adi Coco · 11 min

At the entrance to Cișmigiu, Saturday morning — the TURA x Ideas Chat! group gathering, harsh light, the boulevard receding behind

DISPATCH · BUCHAREST · CIȘMIGIU

„Sunday Walk" — the Saturday edition

Adi Coco · 8 min

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AT THE TABLE · DOBROGEA · MURFATLAR

La Povești, Murfatlar — sturgeon ciorbă and blueberry papanași, in the pergola garden

Adi Coco · 5 min

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HAPPENING · WORKPLACE · ANALYSIS

Innovation Summit 2026 — And the Speaker Who Refused the Refrain

Adi Coco · 6 min

From public archives · Photographed in 1930

Braşov : Palatul Justiţiei [material iconografic]

The Palace of Justice in Brașov, photographed in 1930, carries the characteristic severity of interwar institutional architecture — massive volumes, an imposing façade, a building designed to project authority. The postcard was published by "Cartea Românească" Press, Brașov branch, which says something about the city's cultural vitality: a publishing house with national ambitions was extending its network into Transylvania. The palace itself had been built during the Austro-Hungarian period and was by then serving the judiciary of Greater Romania. The color postcard, nine by fourteen centimeters, belongs to a common interwar practice — documenting urban life through picture postcards, the only "visual archive" accessible to the general public.

Lucian Blaga Central University Library, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Source · Europeana · Public Domain

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