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Marketed outside Romania as Dracula's Castle, it is presented as the home of the title character in Bram Stoker's Dracula. There is no evidence that Stoker knew anything about this castle, which has only tangential associations with Vlad the Impaler , voivode of Wallachia, whose byname 'Drăculea' resembles that of Dracula. [ 1 ]
Poenari Castle (Romanian pronunciation: [po.eˈnarʲ]), also known as Poenari Citadel (Cetatea Poenari in Romanian), is a ruined castle in Romania which was a home of Vlad the Impaler. [2] The citadel is situated on top of a mountain and accessed by climbing 1,480 concrete stairs.
After Transylvania became part of Romania, Bran Castle (that was owned by the city of Brașov) was gifted to Queen Marie by the Brașov magistrate. The queen transformed it into a royal residence in the 1920s, and today it is one of Romania's most popular visitor sites. It is open to tourists, who can view the inside alone or as part of a ...
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Castle Dracula (also known as Dracula’s castle) is the fictitious Transylvanian residence of Count Dracula, the vampire antagonist in Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel Dracula. It is the setting of the first few and final scenes of the novel.
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The fictional Castle Dracula in Bram Stoker's novel Dracula; Bran Castle, a tourist attraction in Romania; Poenari Castle, a castle of Vlad III Dracula; Hunyad Castle, a castle which was Vlad III Dracula's prison; Orava Castle, a location where Nosferatu was filmed "Castle Dracula", a song by Priestess from certain editions of the album Prior ...
Archaeologists stumbled upon a secret tunnel beneath a castle in Turkey near where Vlad the Impaler — also known as Dracula — is believed to have been held captive. The tunnel, located ...