Dracula's legendary castle, The legend of the dracula vampire

Bran Castle, located between Bucegi and Piatra Craiului Mountains, 30 km from Brasov, is the only tourist attraction that attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists due to a legend: the legend of Count Dracula!

Qmbio1qKikZiTebMQjjuJEJabsRRXx5THtUd6DqzfdktZ9/castelul-bran-dracula32.jpg)

In one of the castle's rooms, a "Bram Stoker" room was set up, where the legend of Vlad the Impaler (also known as Vlad the Drac) is presented, as well as the Dracula myth.

The legend of the bloody vampire, called Dracula, was associated with Prince Vlad Tepes only in the 19th-20th centuries. This overlapping of images is due to the fact that the Romanian ruler was known to be ruthless to those who did not obey or violate the laws, and the most common punishment was to be drawn. Another explanation for Dracula's name could be that in 1431 Sigismund of Luxembourg invested Vlad the Second, Tepes' father, with the Order of the Dragon, a cavalry order dedicated to the battles against the Turks, and the emblem was a dragon, associated with the symbol of the devil. Due to this emblem, it seems that Vlad Ţepeş was named Vlad Dracul.!

Dracula - as he is perceived today - is a fictional character. His name derives from the nickname given to Vlad Ţepeş, ruler of Wallachia between 1456-1462 and in 1467, which, for political reasons, the historians of the time describe him as a ruthless despot and blood-thirsty.

The character of Count Dracula appears for the first time in the novel "Dracula" written by the Irish writer Bram Stoker and published in 1897 in England. Originally, Dracula's name is not scary. It derives from the name given to an order of the Crusaders, the Order of the Dragon, with which both Vlad Ţepeş and his father Vlad Dracul (a member of this order) were associated as well. The rest of the Dracula myth is due to the influence of Transylvanian folk legends and beliefs about the mistresses and vampires.

Count Dracula, imagined by Stoker, is a centuries-old vampire, a noble Transylvanian who claims to be a descending descendant of the Attila hunt. He lives in the ruins of a castle located somewhere in the Carpathian Mountains. Conversations with the character Jonathan Harker give Count Dracula the opportunity to look particularly proud of his noble culture, of the predilection of his past. Dracula seems to have studied the Black Magic at the Scholomance Academy in the Carpathian Mountains, not far from the city of Sibiu (later known as Hermannstadt).