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February is a month of celebrating love, with Valentine’s Day just around the corner, and having the traditional Dragobete in the same month makes it a time when Romanians are looking to spend a romantic getaway abroad. The cold winter…

To our readers who celebrate Christmas we send a wish for happiness, warmth, and love. Whilst Christmas is a time of getting together with families, of giving and sharing, it is also an opportunity of reflection, of wishful thinking and…

A new national study conducted by Reveal Marketing Research surveyed the religious behavior among Romanians who declare themselves Christian-Orthodox and who believe in God. The study was conducted online in June 2021, among 1,018…

I was walking leisurely through the bookstore, feeding myself on the smell of printed letters when, suddenly, a book on the bookshelf dedicated to contemporary Romanian writers plucked my sleeve. I took it home, I started reading right away…

Classics were my first literary passion. Lately, however, contemporary literature has found a consistent place in my personal library and, from the moment I chose to share my impressions of the books I read, it has even monopolized my…

Since a few days ago I finished “The Angel’s Call” (Guillaume Musso), I continued this literary genre, being curious to find out the continuation of Madelaine's story. I invite you, therefore, to walk with me in “An apartment in Paris”.…

I met Tahar Ben Jelloun through ‘The Sand Child’. Once I entered the Moroccan universe, and because the first novel did not quench my lust for the Orient, I decided to continue exploring Jelloun's world by reading ‘The Pleasure Marriage’.…

When reading the title, my mind suddenly thought about a journey in Florence, among works of art and history and flavoured sweets and noisy handsome Italians driving scooters in a dangerous manner. I remembered my trip to Naples in…

March 1 is the day Romanians celebrate ‘Martisor’, an old tradition related to spring arrival and warm weather, also symbolizing love, respect and friendship. The word Martisor is the diminutive of martie, the Romanian name for March,…

Dragobete is a traditional Romanian holiday celebrated on February 24, considered to be the Romanian counterpart of Valentine`s Day. It celebrates love, but also nature that is coming back to life. The legend says that Dragobete was the…