Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Sibiya to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Bulgaria to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a mainly continental climate, and an area of 238,397 km2 with a population of 19 million people. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union.
The official language is Romanian, a Romance language, which presents a consistent degree of similarity to Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian, but shares many features equally with the rest of the Western Romance languages, specifically Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan.
Home of Dracula
Bran Castle is a castle in Bran. The castle was built by Saxons in 1377 who were given the privilege by Louis I of Hungary. It is a national monument and landmark in Transylvania. The fortress is on the Transylvanian side of the historical border with Wallachia, on road DN73.
Marketed outside Romania as Dracula’s Castle, it is presented as the home of the title character in Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897). There is no evidence that Stoker knew anything about this castle, which has only tangential associations with Vlad the Impaler, voivode of Wallachia, whose byname ‘Drăculea’ resembles that of Dracula.
The castle is now a museum dedicated to displaying art and furniture collected by Queen Marie. Tourists can see the interior on their own or by a guided tour.
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