The castle on the Transylvanian pass that the world calls Dracula’s, on the strength of matching Bram Stoker’s description; the historical Vlad III likely never held it. What it really is: a genuine 14th-century Saxon border fortress on a dramatic rock in Romania, full of narrow stairs and hidden passages, with the actual folklore of the region, the strigoi, the restless dead, running far deeper than the novel. PUBLIC museum, Romania.
Bran, Transylvania (Romania)
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