A Winter’s Journey Through Romania: Castles, Cafés, and Christmas Markets

This guide is your complete Romania Christmas markets and winter castles itinerary, covering Cluj, Sibiu, Brașov, Bucharest, and beyond. When most travelers picture European winter escapes, their imaginations go straight to Germany’s iconic Christmas markets, Austria’s alpine villages, or Prague’s glittering Gothic streets. And yes—Central Europe is magical in December. In a previous […]

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1/2 Bran Castle - the castle most associated with Dracula. Largely because of tourism. There’s no evidence Bram Stoker knew anything about it. Vlad the Impaler was thought to have been held prisoner there, but that now is disputed.

The castle is on the border between Transylvania and Wallachia. To get an army through the Carpathian mountains, you would need to march your army past Bran, so Vlad likely passed by at least.
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Postcard from Transilvania 🖤

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The correct answer for Place of the Day (31 October, 2024) was: Bran Castle

Steeped in legends, Bran Castle in Romania was originally commissioned to be a bulwark against the expanding Ottoman Empire. What can be seen today is a twentieth-century reimagination...(see link for more)

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