"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.

The story of the real Dracula begins in Wallachia, present-day southern Romania, where Vlad III was ... rather than the ...

Bran Castle is most famous for being the assumed residence of Dracula. Vlad Tepes, the real-life inspiration for the fictional vampire, attacked the fortress several times and even conquered it ...

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 been left ...

The infamous Prince Vlad "the impaler", the real-life inspiration for Dracula, is reputed to have spent a night at Castle Bran. This connection has been a boon to the tourist industry in Romania, and ...

Much like Dracula himself ... of modern-day Romania. He was born in 1431, possibly in Transylvania, though he never owned property there and certainly didn’t live in the castle which now ...

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. Murdered by his ...

Cloaked in a black cape like the infamous count himself, 10-year-old Niklas Schuetz runs through the dark corridors of a hilltop castle in search of the truth about Dracula. “He was a Romanian ...

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 ...