THE “true” home of Dracula where bloodthirsty Vlad the Impaler lived is set to open to the public. Until five years ago, Poienari Castle in the city of Curtea de Arge, Romania, had… ...

The castle hosts regular Dracula-themed events, and a page on its website mentions the theory that Vlad the Impaler once stayed — or was held prisoner — there, as well as speculation that Bran ...

A tale inspired by Vlad the Impaler More than 600,000 tourists flock to the castle every year in hopes of meeting the charismatic vampire made popular by Irish author Bram Stoker’s novel ...

Despite climbing COVID-19 rates, Romania is keeping Transylvania, home of Vlad the Impaler, Dracula's castle and the "world's most haunted forest," open to vaccinated visitors this Halloween.

Emmanuel BRUNNER/Wikimedia Commons. Romania’s imposing Poenari Castle, once home to Vlad the Impaler, has been taken over by a new—and suitably fearsome—occupants.

Vlad the Impaler, known as Dracula, inspired the vampire in Bram Stoker’s novel. Vlad was no ghoulish fiend, though, for all his cruelty, as curators at his family’s castle in Austria emphasise.

Specialists say Bran Castle was never in the possession of Vlad Tepes, and his connection with the castle is, to say the least, ... [about Vlad the Impaler's extreme cruelty] ...

It won’t be long before a Westchester blueblood will be hearing the sweet music of howling wolves and getting a nice whiff of good old wolfsbane. Dominic von Habsburg, 69, of North Salem, has… ...

He told The Sun: "Vlad the Impaler-Dracula reigned three times. "During the second reign, he built up only three monuments - the Comana and Snagov monasteries and Poienari castle.

Bran Castle has been a tourist destination for Dracula fans since the 1960s. Snopes. ... who is commonly known as Vlad the Impaler, a 15th-century Wallachian prince. At most, ...