Scariest Places on Earth - Bran Castle
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Bran Castle is situated in Bran. It is a national monument of Romania. It is also known as Dracula’s Castle. It is commonly believed that it is the home of the main character in Bram Stoker's Dracula, which has led to persistent myths that it was once the home of Vlad Ţepeş, ruler of Wallachia.
Bran Castle Location
The castle is situated on the border between Transylvania and Wallachia, on Highway 73.
Bran Castle’s History
Bran Castle was earlier a fort constructed by the Knights of the Teutonic Order in the year 1212. It was recognized by the name of Dietrichstein at the time. Subsequently, towards the close of the 13th century, it was taken over by the Saxons in that region in order to defend the City of Brasov, a crucial trade center. Vlad Tepes used Bran Castle as headquarters for his penetrations into Transylvania.
The final people to possess it were Princess Ileana of Romania; she had inherited from her mother Queen Marie. The Communist government of Romania confiscated the castle in 1948 and only unpredictably tended to it. It was rebuilt in the 1980s and after the revolution in 1989, it became a tourist magnet. In 2006, the Romanian Government delivered it to its lawful possessor, the legal heir, who was the princesses’ son Dominic von Habsburg. It is known as Dracula’s castle even though the actual Dracula castle lies in ruins by the Arges River.
Bran Castle – The Myth and the Truth
Dracula - as comprehended and advertised in tourist brochures today - is the result of fabled yet, genuine historical facts of Vlad the Impaler's reign, as narrated by revisionist historians, interlarded and dramatically emphasized by the Irishman Bram Stoker's 1897 fictional character, Dracula. However, Stoker never visited Transylvania; he got hold of a map of the place from a library and authored the story based on it. Dracula is a fictional character of his mind and has no relationship with Vlad or has anything to with Bran Castle.
Posted byParvez Ahmed at 5:02 AM
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