Bran Castle

Bran Castle, located near Bran and inside the on the spot vicinity of Bra?ov, is a countrywide monument and landmark in Romania. The citadel is situated on the Transylvanian facet of the ancient border with Wallachia, on DN73. Commonly acknowledged out of doors Romania as Dracula's Castle although it is considered one of numerous places related to the Dracula legend, such as Poenari Castle and Hunyadi Castle, it's miles regularly erroneously called the house of the identify person in Bram Stoker's Dracula. In 1212, the Teutonic Order constructed the wood citadel of Dietrichstein as a fortified role in the Burzenland at the doorway to a mountain

pass through which buyers had travelled for more than a millennium. This citadel turned into destroyed by the Mongols in 1242. The authentic name of the castle, Dietrichstein or lapis Theoderici in Latin, lit. "Dietrich's Stone", appears to had been derived from the Comthur and local Preceptor, frater Theodericus, cited in a 1212 record.