The legend goes that Vlad enslaved the inhabitants of nearby Tirgoviste and forced them to rebuild the castle — offering them their freedom if they could complete the structure in three years of work. After the years of backbreaking work, he had most of the unfortunates executed. Today, Poenari Castle is the absolute opposite of Bran Castle — a ruined, mighty fortress that seldom sees that many tourists.
Views from the citadel are outstanding — and you can be assured that the real life Dracula really did stay here. The castle is also intimately linked to Vlad the Impaler, our real life Dracula. Legend goes that the imprisonment drove him further towards insanity: as he tortured rats, insects and animals, in preparation for his release. My book, Exploring English Castles , is filled with stories and more than spectacular photos. Footer Enjoying Exploring Castles?
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Yet, Stoker never visited Transylvania, much less Bran Castle. Start with an 11th-century medieval fortress nestled between the French regions of Bordeaux and Cognac. Add 22 rooms with silky walls, rich berry-hued drapery, white marble baths, and cornice canopies. Then decide between veal with caramelized chanterelles or Ballotine quail with reduced grape and shallot chutney from Chateau de Mirambeau's Michelin-starred restaurant.
On a moonless fall night, the imposing castle may look like a lair for the Prince of Darkness, but in the daylight the place actually seems more fit for a queen. Which it once was. Behind thick defensive walls, the castle reveals a maze of cozy rooms, nooks, and crannies; a balconied inner courtyard with a well; and even a secret stairway to a wood-paneled library.
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India bets its energy future on solar—in ways both small and big. 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. Vlad was involved in several campaigns to punish the German merchants of Brasov who failed to abide by his commands as regards their trade in his Walachian markets. The original customs houses at which taxes were collected from merchants entering Transylvania are still at the base of Bran Castle.
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