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Aristus

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5. The "real" Dracula, Vlad Tepes, never visited or had anything to do with Castle Bran.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Mon May 10, 2021, 12:39 AM

May 2021

Castle Bran is a restored castle, so it serves as a lucrative tourist attraction. But it has nothing to do with Dracula, the real or the fictional.

Vlad Tepes "The Impaler", lived for a while at Castle Poenari, which is hard to get to, and is a ruin.

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The "real" Dracula, Vlad Tepes, never visited or had anything to do with Castle Bran. Aristus May 2021 #5