Enter if you dare. Dracula may be a fictional character from Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic horror novel of the same name, but turns out there is actually a “Dracula’s Castle” located just outside of Brasov in Romania and the former Eastern border of Transylvania.
Where is Bran Castle located in Romania?
Bran Castle
Architectural style
Medieval
Location
Bran, near Brașov, Transylvania
Address
Str. G-ral Traian Mosoiu, nr.24, Bran
Country
Romania
Which castle is associated with Dracula?
Bran Castle
Bran Castle is often associated with the fictional vampire Count Dracula. The Romanian castle resembles Castle Dracula, as described in Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897), in that both stand on rocky precipices and command spectacular views. But Stoker, an Irish writer, is not known to have ever visited Transylvania.
Who owns Dracula’s castle 2020?
The man who owns the Romanian castle known as “Dracula’s castle” really wishes you wouldn’t call it that. Seventy-nine-year-old Dominic Habsburg, spent his childhood at Bran Castle in Brașov, Romania, where his grandparents Queen Marie and King Ferdinand I lived. He inherited the 14th-century castle in 2006.
