Does Castle Dracula really exist?

Castle Dracula was a fictitious structure imagined by Bram Stoker and is said to have been inspired from many sources and cannot be attributed to one particular castle. read more

Castle Dracula was a fictitious structure imagined by Bram Stoker and is said to have been inspired from many sources and cannot be attributed to one particular castle. Many theories have floated since the book was first published each supporting a particular castle to have been the original source of inspiration for Castle Dracula. read more

Although Count Dracula was fictional, loosely based on the mediaeval tyrant Vlad Tepes of Wallachia, Dracula's castle, surprisingly, does exist and is known as the Bran castle. That's because Bram Stoker, who authored Dracula, based his fictional vampire's castle on this one, located near Brasov in Romania. read more

Poenari Castle is the work of Vlad the Impaler – so, in a sense, it really is Dracula’s castle. There was a fortress on this high, mountainous lookout since early Medieval times; but Vlad the Impaler decided that it needed to be strengthened. read more