In the Market for a Slightly Used Vampire Castle?

Posted by Mike Richard on July 12, 2007
Filed under: Odds + Ends, Sidelines

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Dracula’s Castle

I’m sure there’s a witty quip in here somewhere about the owner being more of a blood-sucker than his real estate agent. But it’s late in the afternoon and my blood sugar’s low so you’ll just have to pretend that I came up with one.

Via Washington Post:

BUCHAREST, Romania, July 2 — An heir of Romania’s former royal family put “Dracula’s Castle” in Transylvania up for sale on 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.

No price was announced, though [it’s] predicted the castle would sell for more than $135 million.

Were I a multi-billionaire, this is the kind of stuff I’d buy. Just because I could.

On a side note: there’s nothing that makes my teeth itch more than when media outlets try to be cute when titling articles such as these. “‘Dracula’s Castle’ Is for Sale, but Will Buyers Bite?” Blech.

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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Comments

Preya
July 12th, 2007 - 8:10 pm

I’ve actually been there, and I was very disappointed by how unscary it was. Total anticlimax.


Mike
July 13th, 2007 - 8:53 am

Maybe they need more bats in the belfry. Or a spooky soundtrack loop playing rattling chains, creaking doors and “Moohahaha!” sounds?


vlad
May 13th, 2008 - 5:51 am

History of the Bran Castle - Castle Bran - Built by the inhabitans of Brasov as a result of the Privilege granted to them on November the 19 1377, the fortress was ment to survey and defend the Bran mountain passcrossed, during the Middle Age, by the most important commercial road joining Brasov to Wallachia.