Transylvania occupies 100,293 square kilometres of central Romania, surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains on three sides. The name means “the land beyond the forest” and the forest is the first thing you notice: beech and oak in the lower valleys, spruce and fir on the higher slopes, covering 60 percent of the land. The region […]
Bran Castle is one of the most famous castles in the world, the legendary “Dracula’s Castle” perched on a rocky outcrop at the entrance to the Bran Pass in Transylvania, Romania, whose dramatic turreted silhouette, secret passages, and association with Vlad the Impaler (the 15th-century Wallachian prince who inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula) draw over 800,000 […]
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