Bran Castle – Count Dracula's castle

I'm sure you all remember the movie "Dracula". The famous Irish writer Bram Stoker, who never even visited Romania, created the character of the vampire Count Dracula in his novel, and Vlad III Cepes from Wallachia served as his character. His film has been screened several times, but the most watched is "Dracula" from 1992 with Keanu Reeves, Vanon Ryder, Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins in the lead roles.When I went to Braun Castle a few years ago, I also learned why it is called Dracula's Castle.Vlad the Impaler, a Romanian national hero who ruled Wallachia, a medieval principality in present-day Romania, in the 15th century. Brave but cruel, he impaled captured Turks, his opponents and compatriots, on sharpened wooden stakes for the slightest moral transgression, leaving them to die in the most agonizing agony. He received the nickname Dracula after the Order of the Dragon, of which his father was a member.The Hungarian king Matija Hunjadi caught him and imprisoned him in this castle, where he spent two months. He was supposed to eliminate Vlad Cepesh in exchange for the Turks no longer attacking Hungary. However, because of his father's friendship with Dracula, i.e. Vlad Cepeš, he could not kill him, but imprisoned him in Bran Castle.That's how the legend of Count Dracula - vampire Dracula and Castle Braun - was born.