Things to find in Romania

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• Bran Castle Haunted place
  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...
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• Poenari Castle Haunted place
  The real fortress of Vlad III, the ruler behind the Dracula name, perched on a crag in the Fagaras mountains of Romania above the Arges river, reached by 1,480 steps up through the forest. Vlad rebuilt it with forced labour in...
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• Sarmizegetusa and the Dacian gold Legend
  Trajan smashed Dacia in 106 AD and took a haul so large Rome ran games for 123 days on it. The capital’s stone terraces and circular sanctuary still stand in the Orastie mountains. Then in the early 2000s spiral gold bracelets...
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Every one of these is sourced

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