It is the perfect setting for a vampire-lord. Tall, turreted, red-roofed, with a massive guard tower, it has thick walls with narrow openings for archers and cannons, iron grates over the portals, and secret passageways. The Bran castle had to be mended and refurbished over centuries of struggle with the Ottoman Empire.
Once the two spacious inner courtyards had been flower gardens, and the white-washed walls of the high-ceilinged rooms had been covered with brilliant-hued carpets from the northern reaches of Moldavia. It is believed that Vlad the Impaler spent some time in Bran Castle, and some say he was even imprisoned there, but there is no evidence to sustain this. Although there is no clear evidence that links Vlad the Impaler Dracula to Bran Castle, much of the myth surrounding Prince Vlad is true.
Dracula ruled this extraordinarily beautiful place for a couple of decades in the 15th century. Even for those rather bloodthirsty times, he was a savage and unforgiving man, though he was certainly not a vampire. His nickname, Dracula , means "son of the dragon," after his father who was a Knight of the Dragon, a great royal distinction in the 15th century and before.
His real name was Vlad, again after his father, and it was an unpleasant habit of his that earned his name in Romanian history: Vlad the Impaler. Dracula slept here. Or maybe not. Amy Alipio is the senior editor of National Geographic Traveler magazine. Follow her journey on Twitter and Instagram. Share Tweet Email. Read This Next Wild parakeets have taken a liking to London. Animals Wild Cities Wild parakeets have taken a liking to London Love them or hate them, there's no denying their growing numbers have added an explosion of color to the city's streets.
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Dracula fans fined for Whitby Abbey detour. Image source, Getty Images. Anyone who visits the castle can get a free Pfizer vaccine. The castle is using vampire-themed branding to encourage people to get vaccinated. The rest of the Dracula myth derives from the legends and popular beliefs in ghosts and vampires prevalent throughout Transylvania.
He inhabits a decaying castle in the Carpathian Mountains. In his conversations with the character Jonathan Harker, Dracula reveals himself as intensely proud of his boyar culture with a yearning for memories of his past. Count Dracula appears to have studied the black arts at the Academy of Scholomance in the Carpathian Mountains, near the town of Sibiu then known as Hermannstadt. These evil spirits haunt their prey from midnight until the first cockcrow, when their power to harm people faded.
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