The world-class Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art runs from May 23 to June 21, 2008, an event fully accessible from one of the many Bucharest apartments for rent in the city. Indeed, vacationers are quickly learning that hotels are expensive throwbacks to the days of yore. Affordable and luxury apartments in Bucharest are available all over the city. You’ll feel comfortable and ready to check out the great art at the Biennial from one of the great apartments in Bucharest.

The Biennial looks excellent this year, the theme being “maps,” featured at famous sites around the city. It’s certainly ironic that such a labyrinthine city as Bucharest should have cartography as its theme. It’s an easy city to get lost in, and in many neighborhoods, full of Bucharest apartments and houses, you’ll either be frustrated or wonderfully lost.

For example, In the Geology Museum, Romanian Lia Perjovschi’s playful ‘Globe – Endless Collection’ assembles 1,500 objects depicting the world map such as magazines, pencils and inflatable globes which litter glass cabinets of quartz, magma and gypsum. 
Another piece by Puerto Rican Karlo-Andrei Ibarra features a large map of the United States carved entirely out of steak.

The Biennial is just one of the thousands of attractions that are encouraging travelers to rent apartments in Bucharest on their next vacation. Affordable, luxury Bucharest apartments are part of a growing trend towards longer stays in a neighborhood in order to get to know a place, rather than jumping about everywhere.