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Bran Castle
Perched dramatically on a sixty-meter high rock cliff along the historical border between Transylvania and Wallachia, Bran Castle is world-famous as the quintessential inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Constructed in the late fourteenth century by the Saxons of Kronstadt (Brașov), the fortress guarded a crucial mountain pass trade route. Beyond its legendary connection to Vlad III the Impaler and fictional vampire folklore, Bran Castle possesses a rich history as a royal residence of Queen Marie of Romania and is widely reputed to harbor ghostly apparitions, phantom scents, and unexplained nocturnal sounds within its narrow stone corridors.