Dracula's legends, Romania

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It will always be fascinating to search, to walk on the places of the creature that became irresistibly famous. The one who reigned when Henry VI and the English fought in the war of two roses, when in Hungary reigned the Romanian king Matei Corvin, when the sultan Mohammed II frightened the Christian Europe with his armies. He wandered through the historical Romanian provinces like no other prince. You can meet him, and this is not a figure of speech, where you do not expect to. These Middle Ages, with the shadow of the prince whom chronicles recommended as a prototype for a book character to Stoker, have their ghosts in many places: the town-burgh Sighisoara, where there is the house in which was born Vlad Tepes; Bucharest, capital of Romania, which keeps as birth certificate a document from 1459, issued by the prince who had his residence there, with the ruins which can be still seen in a mysterious corner of the town, the citadel Poienari, on the peak of a mountain, rebuilt as in important strategic place, the town Targoviste, where he massacred the unfaithful boyards, Sibiu, another burgh of Transylvania, or the Bran castle, around Brasov, where his impetuous incursions could be felt. It is said that his tomb is at Snagov where a church situated on an island in the middle of a big lake keeps the mystery of some underground shelters. May such details change in the mind of the traveler who comes in these regions his image of the "ideal" Dracula? We can not risk and give a firm answer.

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