Forget tales of vampires, instead find fairytale towns and pastoral charm in Romania’s most misunderstood region ...

BUCHAREST, Romania – All night long, a cold wind howled around the gothic castle that inspired the Dracula legend, as a Canadian brother and sister became the first people to pass the night there in ...

BRAN, Romania – A Canadian brother and sister are passing Halloween night curled up in red velvet-lined coffins in the Transylvanian castle that inspired the Dracula legend, the first time in 70 years ...

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The castle said to have helped inspire Bram Stoker's "Dracula" will now offer COVID-19 vaccines. Bran Castle in Romania, often referred to as Dracula's Castle, will have free Pfizer vaccines for ...

BRAN CASTLE, Romania — Dracula’s castle will have overnight guests on Halloween, marking the first time since 1948 that anyone has slept in the Transylvanian fortress. The site’s actual name in Bran ...

There are only a handful of characters as well-known as well as Dracula. There are, perhaps, only a handful of characters throughout history known as well as Count Dracula. "Dracula is the most ...

A castle in Romania that considers itself the inspiration for “Dracula’s lair” is offering a free COVID vaccine and a free tour of the “torture chamber” to visitors. Bran Castle, which is in the ...

Meeting a centuries-old vampire in his home region would be iconic (and killer… in more ways than one). But let’s get this...

Tami Varma, right, and her brother Robin, the grandchildren of Devendra Varma, a scholar of English gothic tales and an expert in vampire lore, pose in coffins, at the Bran Castle, in Bran, Romania, ...

At Dracula’s castle in picturesque Transylvania, Romanian doctors are offering a jab in the arm rather than a stake through the heart. A COVID-19 vaccination center has been set up on the periphery of ...

BUCHAREST — At Dracula’s castle in picturesque Transylvania, Romanian doctors are offering a jab in the arm rather than a stake through the heart. A Covid-19 vaccination center has been set up on the ...