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15:07, Sat, Aug 2, 2025 Updated: 15:08, Sat, Aug 2, 2025 Europe has many old castles, each with its own story. Some were royal homes, others military strongholds. But one castle in Romania has become ...

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BRAN CASTLE, Romania — Dracula’s castle will have overnight guests on Halloween, marking the first time since 1948 that anyone has slept in the Transylvanian fortress. The site’s actual name in Bran ...

Tami Varma, right, and her brother Robin, the grandchildren of Devendra Varma, a scholar of English gothic tales and an expert in vampire lore, pose in coffins, at the Bran Castle, in Bran, Romania, ...

BRAN, Romania – A Canadian brother and sister are passing Halloween night curled up in red velvet-lined coffins in the Transylvanian castle that inspired the Dracula legend, the first time in 70 years ...

Bran Castle (epa) PRAGUE, May 26, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Romanian authorities today officially handed over Bran Castle in the southern Carpathian Mountains to Dominic of Habsburg, the legal heir to the once ...