Jul 03 2007
Dracula’s Castle Up For Sale
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Horror enthusiasts, now might be the time to rip open those savings accounts, scrounge around in the sofa seats, and pull out all of the secret caches. Bran Castle, which once housed the warload Prince Vlad the Impaler who was the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula in Romania is being put up on the market by Romania’s former royal family. This piece of history and culture could be yours for a paltry $135 million:
BUCHAREST, Romania - Romania’s former royal family put “Dracula’s Castle” in Transylvania up for sale Monday, hoping to secure a buyer who will respect “the property and its history,” a U.S.-based investment company said.
The Bran Castle, perched on a cliff near Brasov in mountainous central Romania, is a top tourist attraction because of its ties to Prince Vlad the Impaler, the warlord whose cruelty inspired Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, “Dracula.”
Legend has it that Vlad, who earned his nickname because of the way he tortured his enemies, spent one night in the 1400s at the castle.
Now that is what I would call investment property. If you could afford it would you buy Bran Castle? What would you do with it, keep it open for the public or for private rental, maybe even just your own personal use?
That’s definitely a small price to pay for a great piece of history.
Although I’m not sure I could get a good night’s sleep in such a scary place.
Thanks for the article,
Francis
Hi, first of all I’m from Romania.
I just wanted to point out and stress the fact that Bran Castle and “Dracula’s Castle” are not the same thing. Since the author of Dracula was never in Romania, he just invented everything, so, no one knows witch castle should be Dracula’s.
The second thing is that $135 million is a ridiculous large amount of money for a castle, since for this money, one could buy around 10 nice larger castles in Ireland for example (and those will have as much to do with Dracula as Bran has).