Bram Stokers ‘Dracula’ is the worlds best selling novel and the second best selling  book of all time after the bible. The book is mainly set in Transylvania, an area with a folklore tradition of vampires.

Dracula  was loosely - very loosely - based upon a real life character Vlad Dracula (1431-76), known as Vlad the Impaler for his habit of executing his enemies by impaling them on stakes.

Although Dracula literally means the Devil, Romanians regard Vlad Dracula as a national  hero uniting much of modern Romania and resisting the threat of Turkish  domination.

A tour of Dracula sights can include the house where Vlad Dracula was born at Sighisoara, the ruins of his castle at Poienari, the lake 2000m above sea level mentioned in the book and the spooky Bran Castle.

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