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Poenari Castle was constructed around the beginning of the 13th century by Wallachians. [3] Around the 14th century, Poenari (then known as Castle Arges) was the main citadel of the Basarab rulers. [4] [5] In the next few decades, the name and the residents changed a few times but eventually the castle was abandoned and left in ruins.
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 ]
For the same reason, the Poenari Castle in Argeș County does not qualify as the "real" Dracula Castle; Stoker never heard of the Poenari Fortress. Both Bran Castle and the Poenari Castle are more than 100 miles away from the site Stoker actually selected and took down in a cryptic handwritten note.
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The name Dracula, which is now primarily known as the name of a vampire, was for centuries known as the sobriquet of Vlad III. [7] [8] Diplomatic reports and popular stories referred to him as Dracula, Dracuglia, or Drakula already in the 15th century. [7] He himself signed his two letters as "Dragulya" or "Drakulya" in the late 1470s. [9]
The ruins of the Poenari Fortress (considered to be the authentic Dracula's Castle) Dracula Museum in Bucharest, which presents both the story of real-life Dracula, the Wallachian prince Vlad III Dracula, aka the Impaler and also the one of the mythical Dracula, the blood-thirsty vampire; The village of Arefu, where Dracula legends are still told
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 to the Fire "Dracula's Castle", a song by New Order from their album Waiting for the Sirens' Call; The titular castle in the video game series Castlevania ...