Cărturești Carusel
Restored former bank turned bookshop, with curving white balconies stacked around marble columns.
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This guide to Cărturești Carusel on Lipscani Street in Bucharest starts with a simple puzzle: why can nobody agree how many floors the bookshop has? It follows the Chrissoveloni banking family from a 1903 auction through confiscation, decay and a long restitution claim, then turns to the engineers who had to make old masonry safe without harming fragile neighbours. Best heard from the ground floor, looking up.
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