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Bluesferatu 2025 at Bran Castle

18/04/2025

The “cineconcert” Bluesferatu is returning to Bran Castle on June 28, 2025. The show will start at 9.30pm, promising a more special blues. The original…

Halloween at Bran Castle 2024

29/07/2024

Bran Castle is continuing its tradition of organizing the Halloween Party on its interior courtyard, on November 2, 2024. The event is attended by hundreds…

Bluesferatu, Bran Castle, Romania, July 6, 2024

06/05/2024

UPDATE July 10, 2024: photo gallery from an exquisite event “Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens”, by F. W. Murnau (1922), is one of the…

January 1437 – 1506
Events explained by Stefan Andreescu in his book, Vlad Tepes (Dracula) between legend and historical facts, 1976: January 20, 1437: Vlad the Impaler (Ţepeş) is first mentioned in documents by Vlad Dracul (his father) in a chrysobull (official document) given in Târgovişte, alongside his eldest son Mircea. January 9, 1443: Basarab, son of Dan II, a representative of the Dăneşti family and enemy of the Draculesti family of Vlad the Impaler, was at the Court of Argeş and issuing documents, having replaced Mircea (Vlad the Impaler's elder brother) as ruler of Wallachia. January 1458: Matiaş de Hunedoara (Matthias Corvin, son of Joan Hunyadi, also known as the last true crusader) was elevated to the throne of Hungary. January 1475: Vlad Ţepeş was believed to have fought in Moldova at Podul Înalt alongside Ştefan cel Mare (Vlad's cousin and Voivode of Moldova), but this hypothesis is contested. January 1476: King Matthas Corvin...