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Bran’s castle is the location the Transylvanian locals pimp as the castle of Count Dracula. The actual castle that many believe to be the castle of Dracula is Poenari, the ruins of the castle of Vlad the Impaler who was the inspiration for the Count Dracula story. However Poenari is not actually in Transylvania at all, it’s over the Carpathian mountains via what is apparently a very rough road, so I never visited it. Instead of visited the locals like to market as the Dracula castle and which does look like something that Dracula would have lived in.<\/p>\n

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