The Labyrinth beneath Budapest's Castle Hill is where Vlad Tepes was held captive and tortured for 14 years, starting in 1463. We remember him now as Vlad the Impaler, better known as “Count Dracula” (though the tale is only fiction).
If you're talking about Bram Stoker Dracula then he's not buried anywhere, seeing he's a fictional character. In the book Vlad is killed in his castle. So if he was buried somewhere, then he was buried there. Not just buried mind you… But also beheaded and had his heart rip out and burned.
Although it's not possible to stay in the castle, you can explore it alone or as part of a tour group. And while you cannot spend the night, the remote village of Bran has an abundance of lavish accommodation available for fans of the fanged legend.
The Buda Castle Labyrinth is one of Budapest's subterranean historical treasures, and it comes with a long history. The castle once held captive the Prince of Darkness, Count Dracula, himself – or at least the historical figure who inspired the fictional character.
Bram Stoker's Dracula, the iconic 1897 tale of a vampire from Transylvania, is often thought to be inspired by a formidable 15th-century governor from present-day Romania named Vlad the Impaler. Vlad the Impaler (or Dracula), Prince of Wallachia.
Vlad was a voivode (prince) of Walachia (part of modern Romania). Surrounded by enemies that included the Hungarians, the Ottomans, his younger brother, and Walachian nobility, Vlad employed extremely cruel measures to inspire fear in those who opposed him. He earned his nickname by impaling his enemies on stakes.
There is also a tie to Vlad the impaler who ruled the area and inspired the book some, but he was never here either. The castle is worth the trip and is one to see. There is a moderate walk up on cobblestones to get to the castle and some stairs in the castle.
The closest city to Bran and Dracula Castle is Brasov, which has plenty of hotel options to consider. Brasov is also home to the villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania, a UNESCO World Heritage destination. Because we visited Bran Castle as a one day tour from Bucharest, we made the capital city our home base.
Dead and buried in a great tomb in the chapel of his castle, Dracula returns from death as a vampire and lives for several centuries in his castle with three terrifyingly beautiful female vampires beside him.
Things for which Romania is famous include: the Carpathian mountains, wine, medieval fortresses, Dacia cars, Dracula, stuffed cabbage leaves (sarmale), the Black Sea, sunflower fields, painted monasteries and the Danube Delta.
Legends of vampires go back centuries, but few names have cast more terror into the human heart than Dracula. However the fictional character, created by author Bram Stoker, was in fact based on a real historical figure called Vlad the Impaler.
Count Dracula was inspired by one of the best-known figures of Romanian history, Vlad Draculea, nicknamed Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), who was the ruler of Walachia during mid-1400s. Born in 1431 in Sighisoara - Transylvania, Vlad resided most of his adult life in Walachia (southern Romania).
At Castle Dracula, Van Helsing destroys the three vampire women. A second climactic moment occurs as Van Helsing and company converge with Dracula outside the castle. The men attack the gypsy caravan transporting Dracula's coffin. Morris destroys him with a knife to the heart, although he dies in the battle as well.
A huge stone stairway leads to the castle's entryway. Inside Bran Castle, Queen Marie's residence includes a bedroom, bathroom, dining area, hall, dressing room, and two salons. The castle contains a hidden passageway that connects the first and third floors of the fortification, which was found in 1927.
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.
The castle is real, though, as Stoker based Dracula's home on Romania's Bran Castle, and it's for sale—if you have $66 million to invest in a historic fixer-upper with 57 bedrooms and no indoor plumbing, that is.
Yes, through Mary of Teck, her grandmother, who was the grandaughter of Countess Claudine Rhedey von Kis-Rhede, whose family has a maternal-line connection to Mircea the Shepherd of Wallachia, the grandson of Vlad the Monk, whose father was Vlad II Dracul, making him Vlad the Impaler's brother.
The real life Count Dracula, a fictional character who was based on Vlad Tepes is actually related to King Charles III. Bet only a few people knew that but it's completely true, the King is actually the great great grandson 16 times removed of Vlad 'The Impaler'.
In 1476, while marching to yet another battle with the Ottomans, Vlad and a small vanguard of soldiers were ambushed, and Vlad was killed and beheaded — by most reports, his head was delivered to Mehmed II in Constantinople as a trophy to be displayed above the city's gates.
After Dracula's box is finally loaded onto a wagon by Romani men, the hunters converge and attack it. After routing the Romani, Harker decapitates Dracula as Quincey stabs him in the heart. Dracula crumbles to dust, freeing Mina from her vampiric curse. Quincey is mortally wounded in the fight against the Romani.
Most likely a nobleman like count Dracula would have known German and Romanian, but he identifies as Szekler, a Hungarian speaking group in Transsylvanië. That would have been his primary language.
