Dracula - Myth and reality

A very nice romanian documentary presenting Transylvania, made by a romanian director, Pascal Ilie Virgil.

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The Bran Castle is on of the most important tourist objectives of Romania and Brasov, more specific. According to the historians the Bran fortress was build between 1377 and 1378. Ludovic de Anjou let the people from Brasov build a stone fortress using their own money and work force.

Castle Bran
The Castle was given to […]

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Castle Bran - Built by the inhabitants of Brasov as a result of the Privilege granted to them on November the 19 1377, the fortress was ment to survey and defend the Bran mountain passcrossed, during the Middle Age, by the most important commercial road joining Brasov to Wallachia. Ever since its beginnings, the fortress […]

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The city of Brasov is called in German, Kronstadt, in Hungarian, Brassó. In the past, it was also called Brassovia or Corona and geographically it is situated in the center of Romania, part of the Transylvania region being surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains. The city carries a heavy historical treasure where you can find a […]

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