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 story in recent ... However, that is not to say that a real Dracula did not live in Bran Castle. The castle had small connections with ...

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 ...

Robert Eggers’ remake of the 1922 horror based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel landed ... town of Wisborg and the nearby castle appear as hell on earth, the real-life locations are heaven ...

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 ...

so it’s possible Bram did know about this castle when writing Dracula). The connection between the real Vlad and fictional Dracula seems fairly tenuous then and perhaps just offered Bram a bit ...

Romania’s Dracula-related sites offer a unique blend of history ... Poenari Fortress: Vlad the Impaler’s real castle For a more authentic historical experience, Poenari Fortress offers a direct ...