Bran Castle is a national monument and museum in Romania, it is also part of Romania trips tour. It is known locally as 'Dracula's Castle, ' and can be found on the boundary between Transylvania and also Wallachia. The castle was built-in 1377 and although there is a pretty widespread belief that the former ruler associated with Wallachia, the infamous Vlad the Impaler, once lived within its walls, in actual fact this is untrue, but it is believed he may have spent a few days locked in the castle's dungeons, when the Ottomans where the residing power in your community.
In 1920 Bran was the key residence of Queen Marie of Edinburgh. Marie was born within the English County associated with Kent and has been the Eldest daughter of the Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia and Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, who was the 2nd eldest of Queen Victoria's children. Marie married Crown Prince Ferdinand of Romania in 1893.
During her period living at Bran Marie collected a lot of traditional furniture and several tapestries that she felt were good examples of Romanian crafts and skills and several items remain, for all to see and appreciate, in the current day museum.
When Marie died her daughter, Princess Ileana passed down the castle, but in 1948 the actual Romanian royal loved ones was expelled from your country and the new communist regime grabbed the castle.
In 2005, however, the Romanian government passed a unique law that permitted restitution claims about seized properties such as Bran and the castle then became the house of Ileana's child, Dominic von Habsburg. Just two many years after getting back again his birthright even though, Von Habsburg put Bran on the block, but on 26th Jan 2009 he relented associated with his decision to sell and now plans to keep Bran Castle in the family and transform it into a rather special museum: one that is dedicated to Dracula.
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