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Extract from the Bran Travel Guides:
The small town of
BRAN
(Trzburg) is probably the most popular tourist site in Romania. Situated only 28km southwest of Brasov, the town commands the entrance to the pass of the same name, formerly the main route into Wallachia. The Saxons of Kronstadt (Brasov) built a castle here in 1377-82 to safeguard this vital trade artery, and although what's now billed on every tourist brochure as "
Dracula's Castle
" has only tenuous associations with Vlad the Impaler - it's likely he attacked it in 1460 during one of his raids on the Burzen Land - the fib is understandable as Bran does look rather like a vampire count...
read the whole Bran Travel Guides...
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