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Bucharest Mall
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    • Andraf
  • Updated By Andraf on June 26, 2004
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    • Bucharest Mall - Bucharest
    Bucharest Mall
    by Andraf
    Bucharest Mall is a modern shopping mall that opened in 1999. The building in which it is located has a bit of history. It is part of a series built all around the city at Ceausescu order. They were intended to be used as produce markets but I believe only one or two opened before December 1989 which was the end of Ceausescu's era. The rest have been left incomplete and abandoned for a long time. Their official name was "Complex agro-alimentar" but they were known to everyone as "hunger circuses" (the reason being that their dome-shaped design looked a lot like Bucharest's circus building; and hunger because people didn't really expect to find any food there despite the official word). Anyway, the past is in the past :-) the building got a good facial and today it looks a lot like a US mall. It has over 70 (expensive) stores spread over 4 levels, a large supermarket, a food court with over 20 restaurants, a multiplex cinema, a video games arcade and ... I can't think of something else to enumerate but it has almost everything one needs. It even has a big parking lot, a true rarity in Bucharest.

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  • Theme: Other
  • Address: 55-59, Calea Vitan
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    Victoria Galleries: A fine department store
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    • Fam_Stoica
  • Updated By Fam_Stoica on September 16, 2004
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    • Galeriile Victoria, Bucuresti - Bucharest
    Galeriile Victoria,
    Bucuresti
    by Fam_Stoica,
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    Before 1945, this building houses the famous Galleries Lafayette; today it is a fine 5-floor department store, centrally situated.

    Jewellery, watches, carpets, hand made craft items, clothes, useful small items.

    $100 - $200

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  • Theme: Department Store
  • Address: 17 Calea Victoriei, Bucharest
  • Phone: +40 21 314 85 84
  • Directions: Near Bucharest Financial Plazza
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    Plaza Romania: The largest mall in Romania
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    • Fam_Stoica
  • By Fam_Stoica on July 5, 2005
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    • Plaza Romania, Bucuresti - Bucharest
    Plaza Romania, Bucuresti
    by Fam_Stoica, 3 more photos
    Plaza Romania is the largest (104,000 sqm) mall in Romania and the 2nd in Bucharest. The offer is exhaustive : shops, restaurants, cafes, a supermarket, a Movieplex, other entertainment areas, banks & ATMs.

    Clothes and accessories (Bigotti, Cavaliere, Diesel, Etam, Celio, Kenvelo, Mango, Morgan de toi, Stefanel, Steilmann, Zara), shoes (Leonardo, Otter, Geox), sport items (Adidas, Lotto, Nike), jewellery (Cellini, B&B Collection), electronics (Media Galaxy), mobile phones (Germanos, Connex, Zapp, Telrom Mobile), gifts (Sarra Blu, Gift Shop, Dolce Vita, Vices & More, Bruno), perfumes & cosmetics (Yves Rocher, Beauty Shop, Keyra, The Body Shop) etc.

    $ 50 - 300

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  • Theme: Other
  • Address: 26 Timisoara Blvd., Bucharest
  • Phone: +40 21 319 50 50
  • Website: www.plazaromania.ro
  • Other Contact: office@plazaromania.ro
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    "Artizanat" Stores: Souvenirs and traditional Romanian artifacts
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    • Andraf
  • Updated By Andraf on June 25, 2004
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    • Artizanat store, Bucharest - Bucharest
    Artizanat store, Bucharest
    by Andraf
    If you want to buy handicrafts made in Romania look for the "Artizanat" stores which can be found throughout the city. There are quite a few of them in downtown Bucharest. These stores sell local artifacts like embroidered clothing and decorations, hand painted Easter eggs, pottery, carpets, carvings, dolls, masks, and other items. Other popular places to buy Romanian goods are the shops located in the Peasant Museum and the Village Museum. Many of the artifacts are top quality and inexpensive.

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  • Theme: Local Craft
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    Orhideea Commercial Center: Hypermarket in Bucharest
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    • Fam_Stoica
  • By Fam_Stoica on July 1, 2004
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    • Centrul Comercial Orhideea, Bucuresti - Bucharest
    Centrul Comercial Orhideea,
    Bucuresti
    by Fam_Stoica
    This is one of the largest commercial areas in Bucharest; it includes a Carrefour hypermarket, a commercial gallery and a lot of fast-food restaurants.

    Clothes, electronic equipment, cosmetics, food, drinks

    $100 - $200

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  • Theme: Other
  • Address: 210 Splaiul Independentei, Bucharest
  • Phone: +40 21 221 28 50
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    Unirea Shopping Center: Everything you want under one roof
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    • Andraf
  • Updated By Andraf on September 27, 2006
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    • Unirea Shopping Center, Bucharest - Bucharest
    Unirea Shopping Center,
    Bucharest
    by Andraf
    Unirea Shopping Center is a former communist department store which was transformed into the largest shopping area in Bucharest. Today it houses over 200 shops and boutiques in which you can buy pretty much everything you can think off (clothes, shoes, food, souvenirs, home stuff etc.). You can also find places to eat inside the shopping center. It doesn't look very appealing from the outside - I've read somewhere that they're planning on a new facade - but it's a good place to go shopping.

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  • Theme: Other
  • Address: http://www.unireashop.ro/
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    malls & open air markets: Bucharest Shoping Tour
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    • RoBeauty
  • Updated By RoBeauty on July 7, 2005
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    • Bucharest Shopping
    by RoBeauty
    Shoping in : Bucharest Mall, Mario Plaza Mall, Unirea Shoping Center, Metro, Sellgros
    Carfour.. Gima Supermarket, Vegetables Markets, and in many other places by request

    By request you will have the opportunity to buy kosher or hallal meal.

    everything you need or want

    In Metro is a good price and you could get back
    VAT, but its not allowed to buy only one pices . In all these 3 places its required for a special Id but no worry, our guides will arrange for that.

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  • Theme: Food and Drink
  • Address: just ask me
  • Website: http://www.romanian-travel-guide.com/tours-bucharest1.php
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    Village Museum: Looking for local craft gifts?
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    • gosiaPL
  • Updated By gosiaPL on July 10, 2006
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    • Romanian folk craft - Bucharest
    Romanian folk craft
    by gosiaPL
    The Village Museum has a craft store with great choice of ceramics, icons, table cloths, etc. The store accepts only Romanian leu.
    Also in front of the museum there are local people selling their own hand-made goods. Happy to accept dollars or euro :-)

    I understand prices there are lower than in the stores of downtown Bucharest.

    The little bowls were 30,000 leu (less than $1) each, and the dark vase was 135,000 leu (about $4).
    The small white table runner I bought from a lady in front of the museum was $16.

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  • Theme: Local Craft
  • Address: 28-30 Soseaua Kiseleff (K. Blvd)
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    Carturesti (R). The Experience.: A Living Space, not a Bookshop
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    • Romanian_Bat
  • Updated By Romanian_Bat on January 5, 2008
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    • Carturesti Booshop - Bucharest
    Carturesti Booshop
    by Romanian_Bat, 1 more photos
    Most times when travelling, we pop into a bookshop, ask for a map or album of pictures, we are given one, we pay, we are given a receipt, then we are gone and so is the place we have just entered and exited. Well, as always in this life, there are places which give more than they take. Carturesti is one of them. A teahouse more than a bookshop and a bookshop consisting of more than the books sold there. An atmosphere of the Bucharest d'antan well kept however in a realistic and obvious shape. A visible structure, a good bunch of books that will show you that, despite greyness, Romania has got good architects, despite some quasiliterate shoemakers, there are good craftsmen, despite the 'manele' there are fine traditional Bukovinean, Moldavian, Wallachian, Transylvanian, Maramuresan, Dobrudgean or Gipsy songs. An experience and, eventually, a challenging discovery. Allow it an hour of a lifetime.

    A book of that heterogenous Romanian cuisine, they have got a couple in English. A book about the Razing of Romania's Past, so that you look with a more apprehensive eye to the rusty package of cities like Bucharest, Bacau or Miercurea Ciuc. A synthesis (or analysis, depending on your profile) of the Balkanic scent or contradictory world in this area; try Andrei Plesu, Horia Roman Patapievici or Countess Waldeck, even though you might only find the latter in English. An album of Bucharest Modernism. A book about Byzance and the Byzantine legacy written by Razvan Theodorescu. A Japanese green tea with some green wallnuts 'dulceata', together with the stillness that comes with them.

    As previously said, an hour. One does not have to buy things. But if money is an issue, then full stop.

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  • Theme: Books
  • Address: 13 Pictor Verona
  • Phone: +4-021-2121922
  • Directions: Walk along Nicolae Balcescu Avenue from Romana Square towards Universitate Square, on the left sidewalk. Just after passing by Nottara Theatre and before reaching Patria Cinema, you will see a villa to the left. There is a sincere, see-through door.
  • Website: http://www.carturesti.ro/
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    Art -Collection and Antichities
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    • RoBeauty
  • Updated By RoBeauty on July 7, 2005
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    • orizont gallery - Bucharest
    orizont gallery
    by RoBeauty
    I could offr you a tour of most interesting artgalleries of Bucharest. I fell good & relaxed when I visit this kind of shop .
    If I buy something what I really like I feel perfect :)
    In Bucharest there are more museums per inhabitant then in any other capital city.In this tour you wil admire the romanian paiting exposed in Museum of Art Collections located in the Romanit Palace. It was heavily decorated with stucco and bas relief. Furniture was made of mahogany and ebony laced with mother of pearl; the chairs covered with Cordoba leather and the chandeliers were made of Venetian crystal

    porcelans, clocks, lamps , sculptures, oil-paintings, aqarellas, bijous, jewels, silver coins, stamps, statues, crystals,furniture phones, etc

    depends on vale and negociations:)

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  • Theme: Antiques
  • Address: downtown, victoria street, magheru,23A Nicolae Bal
  • Directions: Visit: The Art Collections Museum, Zambaccian Private Collection and Theodor Aman , Art &Antichities Shops and Art Galeries
  • Website: http://www.onlinegallery.ro/galleries_orizont2.html
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