The castle hosts regular Dracula-themed events, and a page on its website mentions the theory that Vlad the Impaler once stayed — or was held prisoner — there, as well as speculation that Bran ...

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… ...

The real Vlad never set foot in Romania's Bran Castle - widely taken as the inspiration for the lair of Dracula - but it hasn't stopped it drawing visitors in their droves.

It’s not Vlad the Impaler’s castle, though. “People go to Bran Castle because it’s closer to the airport. The real castle where Vlad lived, Poenari, is farther away, and you have to climb ...

Vlad the Impaler's thirst for blood was an inspiration for Count Dracula. ... Many of these workers would die of exhaustion while building Poenari Castle, one of Vlad III’s favorite residences.

Vlad the Impaler, known as Dracula, inspired the vampire in Bram Stoker’s novel. Vlad was no ghoulish fiend, though, for all his cruelty, as curators at his family’s castle in Austria emphasise.

Bran Castle has been a tourist destination for Dracula fans since the 1960s. Snopes. ... who is commonly known as Vlad the Impaler, a 15th-century Wallachian prince. At most, ...

Vlad the Impaler steps out of Dracula’s shadow Niklas Schuetz, a 10-year-old boy visits the dark corridors of a hilltop castle, searching for the truth about Dracula.