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The Castle of Bran "Between myth and reality"

Surrounded of one mystery will have and of legend, the castle of Bran owes its reputation A are charm single and with the myth creates by the Stoker writer around tell Dracula.
The castles of Bran formed part of a whole of citadels on the border.
In XVème century (1377) contemporary time of Louis 1er from Anjou king of Hungary.
This one was built on a rock with 60m height, a fitting exceptional, of the secret parts and the narrow corridors, in make a true labyrinth.
This castle was intended to be a strategic point, soldier and commercial.
In the court interior, there is a fountain of 57m of depth, undergrounds a baker's oven and a prison.
In 1920 the Marie queen, niece of the queen Victoria de Grande Brittany received this castle in gift of the town of Brasov. This one acted as residence of summer.
The legend says that the heart of the Marie queen kept in one limp of money and was discovered in a secret niche.

Vlad Tepes – Dracula
Vlad the empalor (Dracul) was a prince de Walachia in XVème century.
Blazon of the family was a dragon named in Latin Draco-Onis.

In Rumanian drac means devil. After the publication, in 1887 of the novel of Dracula fiction writes to share the Irishman Bran Stoker the name of the prince is become even more famous, as well as the dependent places its name has.

castles of Bran was preferred by prince Vlad when it went in hunting, Sighisoara one of the European city medieval them preserved better, it is the city or Vlad the empalor was born and or it has to pass are childhood.

But the true "castle of Carpates" find has Poienari; it is possible to go on the tomb of Vlad the empalor with the monastery of Snagov.


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