Csíkszereda (Miercurea Ciuc) will soon welcome Drakula Park, a EUR 56 million medieval-themed amusement park dubbed the ...

Plenty of real castles could pass for fantasy illustrations, but their stories are far more layered than anything in fiction.

My trip was hosted by Dacia – arguably Romania’s biggest success ... However, that is not to say that a real Dracula did not live in Bran Castle. The castle had small connections with Vlad ...

Dracula's Kitchen & Bar, a new restaurant opening in the Hagerstown, Maryland, area, is expected to open in June. The menu will offer a mix of American sports bar fare and Romanian dishes ...

Vlad III’s cruelty was real, but his reputation as a villain ... Other locations, like Bran Castle (popularly known as Castle Dracula) in Romania have no connection with Vlad III.

Located on the Transylvanian side of Central Romania, Bran Castle is ... with the Dracula legend, the fictional character created by Bram Stoker in his 1897 novel. The real connection however ...

Nicholas Hoult is on a journey to Castle Orlok, and he is stopping in ... We went to a lot of vernacular architecture museums in Romania, in Transylvania, to study what we would be building ...

"The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in Romania." However, the castle never belonged to the real Dracula, who is commonly known as Vlad the Impaler, a 15th-century Wallachian prince.

For years, internet users have shared a sepia-toned photo of a castle on a hill and identified it in captions as an authentic photo, taken in the 1920s, of the abandoned castle of the real Dracula ...

The Romanian region that inspired Bram ... with its bulky turrets and mountain perch, was the real-life inspiration for Castle Dracula. But while Vlad Țepeș — the 15th-century Wallachian ...

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