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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. Leave a Comment Theme: OtherAddress: 55-59, Calea Vitan
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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. Leave a Comment Theme: Local Craft
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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 Leave a Comment Theme: Department StoreAddress: 17 Calea Victoriei, BucharestPhone: +40 21 314 85 84Directions: Near Bucharest Financial Plazza
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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 Leave a Comment Theme: OtherAddress: 210 Splaiul Independentei, BucharestPhone: +40 21 221 28 50
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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 Leave a Comment Theme: OtherAddress: 26 Timisoara Blvd., BucharestPhone: +40 21 319 50 50Website: www.plazaromania.ro Other Contact: office@plazaromania.ro
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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. Leave a Comment Theme: OtherAddress: http://www.unireashop.ro/
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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. Leave a Comment
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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. Leave a Comment Theme: Local CraftAddress: 28-30 Soseaua Kiseleff (K. Blvd)
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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. Leave a Comment Theme: BooksAddress: 13 Pictor VeronaPhone: +4-021-2121922Directions: 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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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:) Leave a Comment Theme: AntiquesAddress: downtown, victoria street, magheru,23A Nicolae BalDirections: Visit: The Art Collections Museum, Zambaccian Private Collection and Theodor Aman , Art &Antichities Shops and Art GaleriesWebsite: http://www.onlinegallery.ro/galleries_orizont2.html
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