BRAN CASTLE
Brasov,Romania
Tzintziloglou Irene
1o ΛΥΚΕΙΟ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΟΥ-ΚΟΡΔΕΛΙΟΥ
GREECE
Bram Stoker‟s character, Dracula, is a Transylvanian Count with a castle located high above a valley perched on a
rock with a flowing river below in the Principality of Transylvania.
This character is often confused with Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), sometimes known as Vlad Dracul, who was
a Walachian Prince with a castle, now in ruins, located in the Principality of Wallachia. Because Bran Castle is
the only castle in all of Transylvania that actually fits Bram Stoker‟s description of Dracula‟s Castle, it is known
throughout the world as Dracula‟s Castle. Chapter 2, May 5 of “Dracula” describes the Count‟s castle as “. . . on
the very edge of a terrific precipice . . . with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm [with] silver threads
where the rivers wind in deep gorges through the forests.”
Bram Stoker never visited similar to Bran Castle and no other
Romania. He depicted the in all of Romania. Stoker is widely
imaginary Dracula‟s castle based purported to have used the
upon a description of Bran Castle illustration of Bran Castle in
that was available to him in turn-of Charles Boner‟s book,
-the-century Britain. Indeed, the "Transylvania: Its Product and Its
imaginary depiction of Dracula‟s People", (London: Longmans,
Castle from the etching in the first 1865) to describe his imaginary
edition of “Dracula” is strikingly Dracula's Castle.
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Bram Stroker
Irish Author