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[Travel around Eastern Europe] Vampire Castle
train into the layers of the mountains of Transylvania, the weather becomes gloomy. When it arrived at Bran Castles, it was overcast and it seemed to be a good day for vampires to go out. This is the castle inhabited by the Count of Dracula in the novel, and in fact the archetype of Vampire's archetype, Vlad, is associated with the castle for a few months when he was imprisoned as a combat prisoner.
The original owner of the castle was the Romanian royal family. After the death of Queen Mary, she was passed to Princess Ileana. Socialist Romania overthrew the royal family to confiscate the castle, and the princess family went into exile in the United States. In 1989, the new government came to power. Ten years later, the castle was finally returned to the descendants of Princess Ileana.
The legend of the vampire made Bran Castle the most popular castle in Romania, but it is hard to feel the atmosphere of Count Dracula here. It is a sigh of excitement in the historical torrent of the castle owner's royal family.