Dracula’s legacy – the Poenari Castle
Poenari Castle, one of Dracula’s castle Although Bran Castle is associated more often with Vlad Tepes, being known simply as „Dracula’s castle” by most people, it doesn’t have strong connections with the real Dracula in reality, as it’s mostly the fruit of Bram Stoker’s imagination. What few people know is that another castle, or better […]
Dracula – hero or villain? The real story of the son of the Dragon
Son of the dragon, known throughout Eastern Europe and the Middle East as Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), this iconic ruler of noble birth has always been a historic character prune to controversies, even during his lifetime. If you think that the legend of Dracula was created just because of the literature from the 19th […]
The Dracula Guide to Romania
Although the first mention of Count Dracula appears in Bram Stoker’s novel „Dracula” (1897), it was not Stoker who invented that name. The “original” Dracula lived in the fifteenth century; he was not a count, but a voivode and was not a vampire (nor was he ever associated with the folk tradition of these beings). […]
The fascinating history of Bran Castle
Bran Castle: a virtual tour of Dracula’s Castle At the border between Transylvania and Wallachia, perched on top of a cliff, rises a haughty silhouette of one of Europe’s most famous fortifications: Bran Castle or, as legends tourists call it, Dracula’s Castle, where hundreds of thousands of foreigners come annual seeking the ghost of the […]