Bran Castle, Romanian Castelul Bran, a medieval stronghold in the Transylvanian Alps (Southern Carpathian Mountains) of Brașov county, central Romania. Popularly—if inaccurately—identified with the ...

As Halloween edges closer, the yearning to do more spooky and fun fall activities pulls me in. Every year, I attempt to pack my late September to end of October with the usuals: marathons of Halloween ...

Transylvania. After a century of being name-dropped in literature and film, this region inside Romania inspires instantaneous association with severe mountains, gothic castles, peasant villages and an ...

Although this remarkable fortress has weathered centuries of war, poverty and multiple political empires, Bran Castle is most famous for being the assumed residence of Dracula. Vlad Tepes, the ...

There are only a handful of characters as well-known as well as Dracula. There are, perhaps, only a handful of characters throughout history known as well as Count Dracula. "Dracula is the most ...

The castle itself has been around for over 600 years, having been fully completed in 1388. But it wasn’t until 1897 that Irish author Bram Stoker forever made this Transylvanian fortress synonymous ...

BRAN, Romania — Tour companies call it Dracula’s castle, this sentinel built on a mountain pass connecting the flatlands of southern Romania with the hills and forests of Transylvania. But this isn’t ...

MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU, Romania- One weekend in late November 2015, soldiers of 5th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment got a chance to step away from their tanks to participate in the Morale, Welfare and ...