As for the fictional Dracula — from the imagination of Irish author Bram Stoker — the writer, who thought up the mythical creature, never visited Bran Castle — or anywhere in Romania — and ...

A sculpture commemorating Petru Darascu, a Romanian priest who survived several Communist prisons, by Ovidiu Nicolae Popa is backdropped by the Gothic Bran Castle, better known as Dracula Castle ...

Staking out Dracula's castle in Romania. By Aaron Cooper, CNN. The ruins of Poienari Castle are just that -- ruins. This was Vlad Dracula's real home in the 1400s. STORY HIGHLIGHTS.

A visit to Dracula’s castle in Romania. By Laura Elliott . Nov. 4, 2007 12 AM PT . ... My first encounter with real Romanian monsters happened a few days after I arrived.

BRAN CASTLE, Romania — Dracula’s castle will have overnight guests on Halloween, ... a real-life prince who stayed there in the 15th century and had a cruel habit of using stakes to impale his ...

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… ...

BRAN, Romania – A Canadian brother and sister are passing Halloween night curled up in red velvet-lined coffins in the Transylvanian castle that inspired the Dracula legend, the first time in 70 ...

The castle, where Vlad the Impaler, the prince who inspired the Dracula novel, is believed to have stayed, became a much-loved residence of Queen Marie of Romania who, before she died in 1938, had ...

The photo showed Bran Castle, a 14th-century fortress near the city of Brasov, Romania, a spokesperson for the stronghold — which now operates as a tourist attraction — confirmed via email.

Now one of Romania’s best-known, lore-filled landmarks is home to the ultimate soiree on the scariest night of the year. Though you could go on a day tour, eat at the castle restaurant, enter ...