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The small town of Râșnov, about a half hour from Braşov, makes a popular day trip combined with Bran Castle. The main reason to visit is the dramatically set medieval citadel. Râșnov is known as Rosenau in German and Barcarozsnyó in Hungarian.

Bran Castle, about an hour from the city of Braşov, certainly seems like the kind of place Dracula and vampires would live. It sounds exciting, but that’s where the legend ends. It’s known in popular culture as Dracula’s Castle only because Bram Stoker chose it as the setting for his novel. Even the real historical Dracula, Vlad Țepeș, never lived there and probably only visited briefly.