The mention of an Eastern European former communist capital conjures up images of grey, monolithic apartment blocks, pollution and ugly, belching motor vehicles. Based on little more than his ...

How can dinosaurs diversify tourism in Transylvania? The Dino Park in the Brasov region is one of Romania's main attractions, ...

My trip was hosted by Dacia – arguably Romania’s biggest success story in recent history. In 2006, the carmaker’s top product was a 1960s Renault-designed saloon; however, less than 20 years ...

The photo showed Bran Castle, a 14th-century fortress near the city of Brasov, Romania, a spokesperson for the stronghold — which now operates as a tourist attraction — confirmed via email.

As for the fictional Dracula — from the imagination of Irish author Bram Stoker — the writer, who thought up the mythical creature, never visited Bran Castle — or anywhere in Romania — and ...

THE “true” home of Dracula where bloodthirsty Vlad the Impaler lived is set to open to the public. Until five years ago, Poienari Castle in the city of Curtea de Arge, Romania, had… ...

Vlad the Impaler, known as Dracula, inspired the vampire in Bram Stoker’s novel. Vlad was no ghoulish fiend, though, for all his cruelty, as curators at his family’s castle in Austria emphasise.

The castle, where Vlad the Impaler, the prince who inspired the Dracula novel, is believed to have stayed, became a much-loved residence of Queen Marie of Romania who, before she died in 1938, had ...

The real Vlad never set foot in Romania's Bran Castle - widely taken as the inspiration for the lair of Dracula - but it hasn't stopped it drawing visitors in their droves.