Bran Castle, Transylvania (Romania)
Much-hyped Dracula castle: we'd heard it was very overrated, so our expectations were'nt high, but we were pleasantly surprised: compared to other castles, it was fully-furnished, quite "gemütlich". But we arrived just after 3 coaches full of school children, so there was a long queue at the entrance and inside it was very full.
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The Teutonic Order began building a wooden fort called Dietrichstein here early in the 13th century. After the fort's destruction in 1242 by Mongols ("Tatars"), King Sigismund of Hungary ordered a stone castle to be built in 1377, while the settlement of Bran began to develop nearby.
After Transylvania became part of Romania, Bran Castle (that was owned by the city of Brașov) was gifted to Queen Marie by the Brașov magistrate. The queen transformed it into a royal residence in the 1920s. Lots of info-boards were added when it was opened to the public: one of the rooms describes transylvanian legends, including dracula, and for an additional fee visitors can see a medieval torture chamber and the clever system for supplying the castle with water.
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