Books of Romania

Cărturești — Bucharest · Romania

Cărturești is a Romanian bookstore-café chain best known for its Carusel location in Bucharest, built around a landmark spiral staircase. The chain combines books with lifestyle goods and café service across its stores in the city.

Carturesti Carusel — Romania

Cărturești Carusel is the bookshop that opened in February 2015 at 55 Lipscani Street in Bucharest's Old Town. Square One's interior introduced mezzanine balconies beneath a central skylight after the building's restoration. Its bookselling spaces occupy a building with earlier banking and retail uses, distinct from the history of the wider Cărturești chain.

INSPIRATIO — Romania

INSPIRATIO is a design-and-gift studio beside Brașov’s Black Church, at Curtea Johannes Honterus 8. Its team curates art, limited-edition gifts, Romanian-made pieces and souvenirs tied specifically to the Black Church and Transylvanian history, geography and gastronomy.

Legătorie Artistică — Romania

Legătorie Artistică has bound, restored and printed books from its Timișoara workshop for more than 30 years, handling everything from thesis binding to the recovery of old church manuscripts. The shop on Strada Izlaz also runs a print house for stationery, promotional materials and custom publishing.

Souvenir Station — Romania

Souvenir Station, in the Opera House building on Alba Iulia Street in Timișoara, opened in November 2024 as a project of the Timișoara Destination Management Organization. It stocks hundreds of handmade items — pottery, jewelry, t-shirts, postcards, books, games and scented candles — from Romanian and Timișoara artisans.