Vacation for free in Dracula's Castle
Dracula - as perceived today - is the result of interference
of the real historical facts, entered into legend, about the reign of Vlad Tepes
- Dracula, the records of the chroniclers of the time, with the intention to
make the great prince in a bad light, amplified in the next century by
association with the character of the fiction novel "Dracula",
published in England in 1897, co-starring Irish writer Bram Stoker author.
Castle BranAdevarul about Romanian ruler Vlad Tepes
(1456-1462, 1476) is known from many works by Romanian and foreign historians.
Convinced that only a strong rule inside the country could
ensure order and organize the successful defense of her external dangers, Vlad
Tepes resorting to authoritarian rule, requires his subjects as virtues honesty
and diligence, dishonesty (theft), laziness and cunning were harshly punished
by impaling a cruel punishment, but can be understood only in relation to the
times in which he lived, an era of great cruelty, he met other punishments as
harsh, such as burning stake, hanging, etc..
Land of Mountains and National Park led to a series of
historical episodes since prehistoric times to the present, highlighted by a
major geographical and historical time: Bran Pass.
Medieval Bran Castle
Being over time one of the most important links Carpathian,
Bran Pass has developed a dynamic history consists of two major components,
doing business on the road that traverses the repeated military invasions and
using the same route.
Natural amphitheater, bordered on the east by the western
Bucegi and Piatra Craiului Mountains, Bran Pass offered by opening a wide
panorama both to Barsa and Moeciu hills and valley.
Bran Castle was thus endowed with a domain of Barsa villages
such as Baciu, Cernatu, Satulung, Turches, Tarlungeni Zizin, Purcareni,
Crizbav, apathy, and Tohan Zarnesti (the last two being part of the field until
1395) , domain owners having the right to use the forests and waters, over
hunting and fishing, the fountains and common fields.
As planned, the site of the fortress dominate the way,
controlling one of the most important access roads in Transylvania,
highlighting military role. Security was provided by the garrison passersby.
