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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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