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#draculascastle #dracula #vampire #transylvania Transylvania, a place we have all heard of… A medieval landscape with mysterious tales of ghosts, werewolfs and, vampires… but is there truth behind the scary stories? In 1456, a man of the Dracul family, Vlad Dracula came into power over these lands. He had a particular thirst for blood… his enemies would be left out to die on long wooden stakes, around 80,000 of them in his time, gaining him the nickname Vlad The Impaler. He was killed in battle in 1476 at the age of 45, which put an end to his barbaric reign. Stories passed down through the centuries talking of blood suckers and creatures of the night inspired a man named Bram Stoker. While he was researching, he read of the atrocities that had been committed by Vlad Dracula and in 1897 Bram Stoker’s vampire novel, Dracula was born. Draculas castle was described as being located high above a valley, perched on a rock above where the rivers wind in deep gorges through the
