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Top 14 shops in Romania

14 shops worth a visit in Romania, from grand department stores and markets to historic specialists and local makers.

14 shops

  1. 1
    Books & music

    Cărturești Carusel

    Bucharest

    Bookshop in a restored 19th-century building in Lipscani, with tiers of white galleries.

  2. 2
    Shopping street & arcade

    Macca-Villacrosse Passage

    Bucharest

    Glass-roofed horseshoe-shaped arcade of 1891 in Bucharest's old centre, lined with cafés and shops.

  3. 3
    Shopping street & arcade

    Calea Victoriei

    Bucharest

    Bucharest's historic main avenue, lined with palaces, museums, hotels and upmarket shops.

  4. 4
    Shopping street & arcade

    Lipscani

    Bucharest

    Old merchant quarter of Bucharest named after traders from Leipzig, now full of shops and bars.

  5. 5
    Market

    Obor Market

    Bucharest

    Bucharest's largest traditional food market, with farm produce, meats and cheeses.

  6. 6
    Market

    Piața Amzei

    Bucharest

    Central Bucharest food market in a renovated hall near Calea Victoriei.

  7. 7
    Department store

    Bucur Obor

    Bucharest

    Large communist-era department store beside Obor Market, still a busy everyday shopping hub.

  8. 8
    Department store

    Unirea Shopping Center

    Bucharest

    Successor to the socialist-era Unirea department store on Bucharest's Union Square.

  9. 9
    Crafts & makers

    Horezu Ceramics

    Horezu

    Village workshops producing the UNESCO-recognised red-and-cream pottery of Oltenia.

  10. 10
    Crafts & makers

    Marginea Black Pottery

    Marginea

    Bukovina village where potters still make distinctive black ceramics using traditional smoke firing.

  11. 11
    Crafts & makers

    Corund Pottery Market

    Corund

    Roadside market of a Székely Land village known for its glazed blue-and-white pottery.

  12. 12
    Shopping street & arcade

    Strada Republicii

    Brașov

    Brașov's pedestrian high street running from Council Square through the old town.

  13. 13
    Shopping street & arcade

    Strada Nicolae Bălcescu

    Sibiu

    Sibiu's main pedestrian shopping street linking the old town's Great Square to Unirii Square.

  14. 14
    Shopping street & arcade

    Palas Iași

    Iași

    Shopping and leisure complex with gardens beside the Palace of Culture in central Iași.

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