Transylvania concept is, in terms of geographical and political understanding two distinct first concern, in a restrictive sense, only the intra-region, bounded by the Eastern Carpathians, Southern Carpathians and west of the Western Carpathians (Apuseni Mountains). This macro-regions was called in medieval Transylvania, Transylvania Princely Voivodeship ( “land beyond the forest”), its total area measuring approximately 57,000 kilometers².

The second meaning of the name refers, by extension, also in Maramures, Crisana, Satu-mare, known as Partium held, that “the parties” from Hungary, side by mid-century XVI historic core of the Transylvanian plateau, forming with the Principality of Transylvania.Ie: counties (counties) Maramures, Salaj, Satu Mare, Bihor and Arad. Surface area was even higher Partium. For example, under the Treaty of Speyer (1571), were part of Partium districts (counties) Maramures, Bihor, Zarand, Solnocul the Middle Crisna province (country) Chioarului and districts (counties) Arad and Severin.

Sometimes, Transylvania is given a very broad sense, it designated the Romanian territory west of the eastern Carpathians and north of the Southern Carpathians, thus including the Banat. Fluctuating nature of the contents limit is due to the complex evolution, historical-political, the region of age postromanã to modern times.

The total area of Transylvania, with Banat Crisana, Satmar and Maramures, totaling 100,293 km ², which repreprezinta 42.1% of the total area of Romania. Population living in this area include 7,221,733 inhabitants, a figure which represents about one third of the population of Romania.

Transylvania is the geographically a high plateau, south of the country separated by Romanian Southern Carpathians and east of Moldova in Eastern Carpathians. The western part of Transylvania (Crisan) has borders with Hungary. To the north, is bordered by Ukraine (Transcarpathian region – which includes northern Maramures history – and Ivano-Frankivsk). Plateau heights between 305 and 488 meters is irrigated by the rivers Mures River, tributaries of the Tisa and Olt River, tributary of the Danube. The largest city in the region, according to the census of 2002, Cluj-Napoca (its historic capital, alternative Sibiu and Alba Iulia) followed by Brasov.

At the end of World War I, in the context of the dual monarchy collapsed, Hungary proclaimed its independence, including in its territory and Transylvania. In these circumstances, the leaders of the Romanian National Party and the Social Democratic Party Romanian National Council established in Arad on November 3, 1918. On November 13, 1918, in Belgrade, the Hungarian government signed an armistice with the Entente, setting a demarcation line, which left the control of northern and central Hungary, Transylvania and Banat, under control of Serbia. Under these conditions, the Romanians held on November 18 / December 1, 1918 a National Assembly in Alba Iulia in 1228 designating delegates. The meeting had aprticipat approximately 100,000 people and was conducted in a decent and festive atmosphere. [30] The National Assembly decides the union with Romania Romanian-inhabited territories. After the 1918 union with Romania for a year and half, Transylvania remains autonomous under Roman rule, being managed by a Board Dirigent.

Case Assembly shall be sent King Ferdinand that on December 11/24 sanctioned union with Romania “lands covered by the decision of the National Assembly in Alba Iulia.” However, Romanian authorities do not exercise control over all the territories concerned. Romanian Army had stopped the Mures line and north of this no Dirigent Council nor still less the Kingdom of Romania was not exercised effective authority. Entente Powers ordonasera end any military operations to negotiate peace with Hungary.

Meanwhile, on March 21, 1919 power in Hungary was taken over by communists, who proclaimed the Soviet Republic of Hungary led by Bela Kun, a native of Cluj. Hungarian communist forces attacked the Czechoslovak army and Romanian troops from the territory of Transylvania in hopes of making the junction with the Soviet troops who in turn attacked in Bessarabia and Ukraine. In July 1919 the Romanian army started at the request of the Entente, the offensive against the Hungarian forces, and on August 3, 1919 occupied Budapest, breaking the Soviet regime of Bela Kun. The Romanian army withdrew from Budapest in October 1919. During stationary in Hungary, the Romanian army held several points of distribution of food to starving people, especially in large cities.

The Treaty of Trianon on June 4, 1920 shall be the border between the Kingdom of Romania and Hungary. Northern border with Czechoslovakia and Poland and the south-west with Yugoslavia is set at August 10, 1920 by the Treaty of Sèvres. The latter treaty was painful for Romania as the Romanian forced abandonment of the historical Maramures and Banat, but the Entente Powers had pushed for its completion as set borders between countries become allies after the First World War. In terms of the Hungarian state, the Treaty of Trianon is considered dictate, as they say, was not taken into account the views and some existential interests of the Hungarian state, Hungary’s borders were established not on ethnic grounds (Wilson plan) but the geopolitical and strategic-economic criteria. As a result, cities and regions Hungarian majority and minority Romanian, Serbian, Slovak was found in neighboring states railway lines and interrupting the flow of goods to and from those cities (Arad, Oradea, Subotica, Košice, Muncaciu, Novi Sad AND . a.). Treaty of Trianon placed 33% of polluting Hungarian Hungary before the war abroad.

Between the two wars, Hungary led a sustained struggle to annul the Treaty of Trianon, which the Hungarians felt a historical injustice. Some historians and politicians claim that Hungarians with Romanian land reform of 1921, which affected vast land ownership in Romania, including the Hungarian property owners, while a while after the war, Hungary’s economy has been crippled by new borders Why split what had previously been forced a single economic space [citation needed]. In the words of the Hungarian head of state between the two world wars, Admiral Miklos Horthy, “an enemy of Hungary is Romania, so that the largest territorial claims are against them.” [Citation needed]

In these circumstances the successor states of the dual monarchy tried to organize alliances able to fight the revision of peace treaties. Of these the most lasting was the Little Entente, the alliance between Romania,Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. However, the system of peace treaties of Versailles was put in danger when Hitler came to power in 1933, it proclaimed that the main objective review of the Versailles Treaty, amid political weakness (appeasement policy) of France and Great Britain before the German National Socialist dictatorship. The Munich Agreement of 1938 which incorporated the Reich and the dissolution of the Czech Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia in 1939 marked the end of the Little Entente.

In 1940, in the context of the rise of Nazi Germany and Romania’s isolation following the collapse of its system of alliances (fall of France and Great Britain isolation), Hungary calls for review after World War frontier. King Charles II and Gigurtu government talks but negotiations have accepted the principle of Turnu Severin in summer 1940 did not lead to any results. Accordingly, foreign ministers of Italy and the Reich, Joachim von Ribbentropp and Galeazzo Ciano summoned in Vienna on August 30, 1940 the foreign ministers of Romania and Hungary, and imposed an agreement that the transition in Hungary constituted a territory of 43,492 square kilometers, with a Romanian population of 1% (as of January 1941 the Hungarian census, 1.5%, or 106,900 Romanian, Hungarian population accounting for 98.5%, or 2,344,000 people) [31], a territory known as behalf of Northern Transylvania (Hungarian Észak-Erdély). The agreement, called in Romanian historiography Vienna Award, and the Hungarian “Second Vienna Award” (the first being that the Hungarian and were surrendered in 1939 territories “Upper Hungary” / Felvidék, that southern Slovakia Today, with a predominantly Hungarian population), provides current territorial Hungary joining Satu Mare, Salaj, Maramures, Bistrita-Nasaud, Harghita, Covasna (mostly), Mures (part), Cluj (the largest part), Brunswick (the north) and part of Arad county. Southern Transylvania (the counties of Brasov, Sibiu, Alba, Hunedoara, parts of the counties of Cluj, Arad and Mures) and Banat (Timis and Caras-Severin county) remained in the composition of the Romanian kingdom.

Case of discontent both states, both Romania and Hungary, which is then desirable to annex the entire region. Submission of Hungarian army in Transylvania was marked by serious atrocities committed against minorities. For example, in northern Transylvania, Hungarian soldiers have committed atrocities and massacres against the Romanian inhabitants of several villages (Moses, Ip Jolted etc.), topping the number of dead at around 1700. Number of torture amounted to thousands.

By Article 19 of the Armistice Convention signed on September 12, 1944 by Romania with the Allies in the Second World War, after the coup led by King Michael of August 23, 1944, shall provide that the allied “agree that Transylvania (or most of them), be returned Romania, provided confirmation of the Treaty of Peace. Soviet state sought to use the postwar period the question of Transylvania in political relations between Romania and Hungary. It is significant that although the Romanian army participated in fighting in northern Transylvania, the Soviet army did not allow recovery Romanian civil authorities in the territory ceded to Vienna until March 6, 1945, in Bucharest on the Communist-dominated government was installed and led Dr. Petru Groza.

In the period between 1945-1947, until the conclusion of peace treaties between the Allies and Romania and Hungary (both have had the status of countries defeated in the Second World War), in Hungary there were steps to keep even a small part the territory acquired in 1940 (being focused on the present county of Satu Mare). However, peace treaties of Paris, in 1947, confirms the return to existing on 1 January 1938 border between Romania and Hungary (the border established by the Treaty of Trianon) and validity of the Vienna Diktat.

The name comes from the Dacian tribe of Carpi, who lived in Moldova, the eastern slopes of the Carpathians, a name which, in turn, probably came from an Indo-European word meaning stone.

The highest peak is Gerlach whole Carpathians, 2655 m, in Slovakia and in Romania is Moldoveanu Peak, with 2544 m, situated in the Fagaras Mountains of Southern Carpathians.

Unlike the Alps, the Carpathians have large mountainous and their heights in the form of large areas covered with grassland. Carpathians belongs to the largest volcanic chain in Europe. Along with a large crystalline rocks and volcanic sedimentary rocks have an extension, giving a relief with gentle slopes.

Carpathians begin on the Danube near Bratislava. They surround Transcarpathia and Transylvania in a large semicircle, continues southeast, and end on the Danube near Orsova, Romania. The total length of the Carpathians is 1500 km, and the mountain chain width varies between 12 km and 500 km. The greatest width of the Carpathians corresponds with the highest altitude. Mountain chain is the largest width in hilly Plateau of Transylvania, and at the foot of the Tatra Mountains (the highest height of the Carpathians, with Gerlach know, which is 2 655 m altitude, the territory of Slovakia on the border with Poland. It covers an area 190 000 km2 and, after the Alps, is the most extensive mountain range in Europe.

U can find many 5 star hotels or lower standards all over in the Carpatian Mountains chain and have a great vacation any time of the year, specially in winter when all is covered in snow. Settle your self at pension Dracula for a mystic vacation any time wich was named after Vlad Tepes also knowned  as Dracula.

These stories come from the locals who encounterd or had a strange expirience in or near the Hoia Baciu forest. A native Tascau Matthew, says that in one nig

ht hhe walked in the woods to shorten the way home, barely reached the forest entrance road whet without warning a devil appeared in his way, about 2 m high, horns and ugly.

Matthew remained breathless, amazed and stuned,it didnt even knew what was happening to him, the only thing taht he could do was fall on hes knees and pray with his eyes close. About 7-9 minutes later he open his eyes continuing to pray and to his joy he was alone again, scarred and shocked he hurryed home and told all his strange and frightening encounter.

Toponym proves that Waras at the time settlement was in the process of economic development and crystallization of stable administrative structures.

In the same period, the function of the royal magistrates will be appointed Orăştie more Olah family members, including its mention Ladislaus, Matthew, Stephen, and then Matthew, son of Stephen.

Drastic in Iosefin Map of Transylvania, 1769-1773
The establishment of Habsburg rule in Transylvania will mean additional obligations for the Mures city, of quartering, the supply of food and fodder, cash contributions, provision of transport etc. pin. In the eighteenth century, due to famine, economic ruin, has perpetuated demographic movements, another scourge, the plague will strike the city’s population. In 1717-1718 the epidemic will wreak havoc among the inhabitants of the town and surrounding villages.Reizbucneşte Plague in 1738, registering 156 people dead and 67 infected.
Drastic noted for centuries by its status as a cultural center. Since 1582 are printed here Pali, the first Romanian translation of the first 2 books of the Old Testament. At the same time have developed educational institutions which attract students and teachers in Transylvania and Banat. In the late sixteenth century and the following will work here at a school whose rector will be reformed, between 1667-1669, Michael Halych, son of a Romanian noble of Caransebes, a humanist trained at schools in England and the Netherlands.
In the early eighteenth century are recorded and primary schools, Orthodox and Greek Catholic Romanians‘. Following the council decision in Alba Iulia on 7 October 1697, the Romanian Church in Transylvania united with the Church of Rome (see Romanian Church United with Rome). After many influences come mainly from the Metropolitan Karlovitz Serb, one part of the Transylvanian Romanians decided to abandon the canonical obedience to the Pope of Rome and to the Romanian bishops Blaj, the first Serbian priests sent from Karlovitz. Despite the initial dispute, the two churches came to live together in peace, until the abolition of the Romanian Church United by the communist regime (1948). In particular historical moments in the history of the Romanians, the two churches, Orthodox and Greek Catholic, had acted for the benefit of the nation’s interests.
In the revolution of 1848, Drastic is placed in military plans of the two combatants, Austrian and Hungarian. Near the town, following a short battle, the Hungarians lost 2 guns and 230 combatants killed and wounded, and withdrew to Simeria to wait for reinforcements. During the battle, General Józef Bem was hit by a bullet in his right hand and that he broke the middle finger.
After the revolution, Drastic will become established military prefecture of the same name.During this period, the Romanians did not have any management position in the Judiciary town, which led the Greek-Catholic dean John Pop Ilieş to submit in October 1851, a petition of demands governor of Transylvania, Prince Schwarzenberg, requiring the granting of rights for Romanians. Only at the beginning of the liberal era (1860), Romanians can access a range of functions within the city administration. Dissatisfied with the small number of functions granted to Romanians call comitelui Salmen the city dignitaries and seat to be shared proportionately Drastic, 12 parties to participate in a Romanian and Saxon.
Population Orăştie show solidarity with their brethren across the mountains fighting the war for independence in 1877-1878. It organizes fundraising and material offerings to support the Romanian army, an important role in the action with Ana Tincu. The young calf Emil Ciuceanu move mountains to enlist voluntarily participating in the battle of Pleven and Vidin, which is leading his heroism, and was decorated with military orders.
A special role in combating laws Magyarization education lies lawyer Abraham Tincu. During a meeting of protest from Deva, from March 10, 1883, he condemns the policy of denationalization promoted by the Hungarian government, which will attract conviction following a trial. In turn, the lawyer will participate as orăştian Silviu Moldovan defender Nicholas Roman, accused in the MOU. Big Three politicians have Orăştie John Mihu, Aurel Vlad and Ivan Mota will play a special role in the Romanian national movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The Drastic activist group will be changing tactics will work for the Romanian National Party. By participating in parliamentary elections, Aurel Vlad, will enter the parliament in 1903 following the victory over the government’s official candidate at Dobra. Aurel Vlad will play an important role in the revolution of autumn 1918, was elected president of the Romanian National Council of Drastic. Following the Grand National Assembly of Alba Iulia, from December 1, 1918, Aurel Vlad will be elected to the Board Dirigent, repartizându’s finances spring.

Coat of arms between the wars
Period tier system meant Orăştie transformation into a center of the Romanian national movement. Here were founded the bank “Transylvanian” of many cultural and economic associations and a number of Romanian newspapers have also played their a special role in the movement for national emancipation, cultural, spiritual and economic Romanians.
In 1919 he founded the State School “Aurel Vlaicu”, which will be one of the greatest achievements of orăştienilor in education. The establishment of communism in Romania would mean for Drastic liquidation of all cultural and economic organizations, the transition from planned production and agricultural cooperativization. It will develop business and “chemicals”, “Vidra” and “enterprise Mechanics Drastic”, attracting the workforce in the surrounding area, giving new dimensions to the city population.
Cultural traditions have kept some old re-determined cultural and economic associations, among which the Despărţământul Drastic Astra (1993), Romanian craftsmen Meeting (1996) and lays the groundwork for new cultural and sports associations. Drastic show and this time it is able to overcome the communist dictatorship and to restore cultural brilliance that had for centuries to come.
Because of its historical traditions, cultural significance and degree of economic development and urban, in 1995, Drastic was raised to the rank of city.

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Tourist attractions : ARSENAL PARK

ARSENAL PARK has created a new form of military life: The soldier holiday. The perimeter of the former arms factory from Orastie I kept the spirit and atmosphere of men’s barracks. But we replaced instruction with entertainment. No plantoane. Without awakening the trumpeter. No Taras on elbows. Only allowed program. Napoleon Bonaparte said that “any wounded soldier has to marshal baton. Here, each guest is treated as a marshal. ARSENAL PARKis a 4 star holiday complex with the epaulets. The stretched from Romania.

And one of the few targets with military theme in Europe. 80 hectares of opportunities. Territory unlimited adventure. Outdoor military museum. Playground in a disarmingly natural e

nvironment. Training camp. Base tourist expeditions. Manufacturer of adrenaline. All these things-and more-coexist in ARSENAL PARK, a complete unit.
Holidays military unit.

www.arsenalpark.ro

Existing greenhouse complex consists of 2 groups with a total of six greenhouses (the total area of over 3 500 meters) in the equatorial and tropical plants are grown:

* Bio dome with aquatic plants – here you can admire the lotus leaf Amazonian over 1.5 m in diameter,
* Bio dome with palm trees – over 80 species of palm trees, decorative or industrial (coconut, palm oil), made in Japan, Australia, Asia and the Canary Islands
* Bio dome from Australia and Mediterranean vegetation – different species of ficus, ferns,
* Bio dome with orchids and ferns,
* Bio dome with bromeliacee,
* Bio dome with succulent plants.

The existing botanical gardens in the world is estimated there are over 4 million specimens of plants, belonging to about 80 000 species, many of them that of extinction. During recent decades, given the rapid degradation of natural habitats due to overexploitation, pollution, desertification accelerated intensification of extinction of plant species, which required reconsideration of the role and importance of botanical gardens, which must work in conservation global biodiversity. Their overall mission should seek to stop the loss of species and their genetic diversity in the world. Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden and the required allocation to these new requirements, successfully initiating research on the possibilities of conservation of valuable species of flora Romania, especially those endangered or endemic. Once inside the Botanical Garden area, which is striking the visitor encounters a profound silence everywhere, in discordance with the dynamism of Cluj. Visitors to the Botanical Garden in Cluj is recommended, therefore, to take a civilized and respectful to all the work and efforts of over 100 years and to all that has managed to create here.

“Sarmisegetuza” a word that some have not heard before. Others have heard it, but do not know what it means. Not many manage to pronounce it correctly. Some know that this was a city, of course Romanian. Some know that, in reality, it’s the second fortress of the same name: one a Dacian and Romanian. And of these few, very few got to see the first, true Sarmisegetuza capital of the Dacian kings. It is in Orastie Mountains, abandoned by historians, robbed of gold seekers.

Sarmisegetuza true capital of the Dacian kings, is
a city located in Orastie Mountains. The fate of the sly made to base a second Sarmisegetuza, this Romanian, which today is part of a greater fame than the Dacians. Romanian colony was nearly destroyed the former capital of the Dacians. Called in the time of Trajan – Augusta Traiana Colonia Ulpia Dacica “and received barely taziu under Hadrian Sarmisegetuza Dacian name, location functioned as an agent without permission of diversion. Most of those who arrived in the country Hategului at Sarmisegetuza Romanian (they’re plain, at about 60 km away from the mountain fortress of Dacian kings), they thought that was the end of the road. But only true path begins there. Those who remain at half-sister of the mountain Sarmisegetuza not get to open the box, good sister. Ulpia is a colony of many hundreds of Romanian world conquered by the Romans, the grandest of Dacia, but get nothing unique among Roman cities. While her sister from the city, museums and sporovaie fill lapidariile and hundreds of tourists come to the coaches to see it, sister of the mountain remain silent under its veil of mystery. Pervertitor away from the civilization, in an ivory tower-shield wall of mountains and beech adumbritori, Sarmisegetuza Dacian Keep easy reach from behind. From Orastie Costesti, asphalt road winds through the hills of increasingly close and stops suddenly, beyond the “gate with Dacians. From here is only ridden by hartoape forest road and tore the torrents, and up to Sarmisegetuza are 20 kilometers, on which a car can not cross the ordinary. Some stop on their way here, discouraged. Others abandoned halfway. Even during stops here and with it, stop history itself.
Sarmisegetuza Regia, the royal, of mountains, one in Gradistea Muncelului, one at the foot of Mount Godeanu, the Romans conquered and made one with the earth, not to remain stone over stone or a temple, not to bone over bone remain a priest if any, existed before the Burebista Sarmisegetuza to have established his capital there. King get, probably came from the plains, trained and supported by the great initiated Deceneus, came to the mountains to prepare the unification of the tribes of the Dacians and Getae as one heart. Long reign was cut short by a conspiracy, and that same year in which Caesar was killed. During this decade, became the capital Sarmisegetuza that Decebal a lead, later, the top of brilliance, then those of ruinii Romans. The whole mountain was modeled. Dozens of terraces were tame wild hips a huge effort, difficult to calculate, arousing the admiration of the historian Dio Cassius, who said that the Dacians have built mountains. Sarmisegetuza around in concentric circles, a lot of other fortresses guard the access to capital, a system unique in the ancient fortifications Costesti, Blidaru Stone Red, White Girls, Capalna … All this work will serve in the opinion of “experts,” the walls between the superior defense that was not nothing and above which were some temples. This is Sarmisegetuza to reconstitute their naive or tendentious. A haughty and challenging nonsense. Or perhaps a cliff mystery …

Head with the trunk in feral adults rarely reaching 120-150 cm to 2 meters. Boar male weight is 200 – 300 kg and the female is 160 – 200 kg. Dental formula I 3, C 1, Pm 4, M 3 / I 3, C 1, Pm 4, M 3 = 44.

Boar body is covered with hairs long, strong, rough, often divided at the top, between the pear is found down, more or less often depending on the season. Coat color is dark brown and wild boar in the young has a gray color – brown with yellow stripes on each side of the body. On the thighs are yellow spots.

Or wild boar Sus scrofa is spread all over Europe. In our lives in the Carpathian and Carpathian Forest desisurile generally by around swampy places. Amimal boar is one night, going out for food and stirring potato and corn crops at the edge of forests.

Wild boar is an omnivorous animal, feeding with vegetables and meat or plants but from different animals.

Belongs to a herd of wild boar with moving all the time. Flocks consist in approximately 5.12 individuals, but were seen and herd by 20 individuals.

Female born a year a 4-6 piglets.

You can find Wild boars in Romania in the vast forests of Transilvania including Hoia Baciu Forest

Deva Fortress

Deva has a secure fortress dating: the year 1269. Oldest traces found in that place to go but the lead vietuirii dawn of human history, then if the state during and Roman domination. During feudalism, the city was linked to numerous life and work grelele that peasants serfs had to do: the preservation and defense of the fortress walls, digging ditches, cutting wood and its hatisurilor These burdensome obligations have made the city become, during the centuries, the target of many uprisings. In 1784, during the rebellion led by Horia, Hen and Crisan, masters of the city resisted the attacks serfdom and miners in the Apuseni Mountains. Unarmed and without a good organization, the rebels failed to take the city under siege. Forced to retreat, they left the noble hand of 86 prisoners, who were cutting heads and their bodies were dumped in a mass grave behind the city.

Deva, the town at the foot of the Citadel, is one of the oldest in our country, as attested in documents in 1269. Today, Deva occupy first place in importance among the five municipalities of Hunedoara county, is an important political, administrative and cultural, and place of residence of the county.

It is located in the central part of the county, at 45 * 53 ‘north latitude and 22 * 54′ eastern longitude, at a height of 187 m above sea level, between the Apuseni Mountains and Counties. The city has developed into a picturesque natural environment, on the left bank of the river Mures, benefiting from its manoasa meadow and mountains of rich mineral resources of gold METALIFERI and surrounding mountains. Located at a relatively low altitude in a small depression, enjoying the temperate climate of the entire Transylvania, away from streams, Deva is an authentic city tourist center, soothing and refreshing.

Characters in the novel “Dracula” are the result of fantasy author, but the facts of Count Dracula and his end are based on popular beliefs about the existence of evil forces: vampires or strigoi. In many peoples beliefs vampires are dead people who by virtue of a sentence or a curse during life, leaving his grave at night and wandering among the living people who sleep and suck their blood – their only food. Everything is considered and vampire bat, an animal that lives on in the cave at night to suck blood out and the people .* In Central America and South America vampires are a large bat species feed on blood of birds and mammals found in sleep . In his famous work Odisseea poet Homer, identify the souls of the dead bat.

In popular beliefs of the Carpathian-Danubian-Pontic correspondent in acceptance of people dead vampire who leave their tomb at night and wandering among the people living on it surprise you to sleep and do a lot of inconvenience and damage, they suck blood and milk taken cattle, the strigoi. May be strigoi living, one that – as recorded folklorist I. Aurel Candrea – “all day he sees things that other people, but at night i fell asleep as soon as the soul goes out to meet with other strigoi, and the body remains as dead on the bed. The souls of these strigoi … kill children and suck their blood, take the hand of the cows and the crops. The same author says that “then you die one of these beings that are believed to have been ghost is summer in the heart of redness on a spit fire or even for her soul can not escape from the grave and not torture people night.

In Romanian mythology and strigoi are dead, those spirits of dead people from the former strigoi alive or where they went wrong some of the ordinances of the funeral, have lost the way to the other world or what had to pay customs. Besides the damage that they are people in life – say Sat. Fl Marian – Strigoi dead “eat one by one each member of their family or they eat only the heart and suck their blood.

As seen today, Dracula himself appears Romanian Country prince, Vlad Tepes, in whose face (appeared in a woodcut of the “German Stories About Dracula Prince” appeared in Nuremberg in 1488) is represented in many commercial advertisements. In this depiction is not viewed as a real historical figure, but as a vampire as is known, by Western tourists, from Bram Stoker’s novel and the numerous films were made in the West since 1922.
Thus, while the Roman ruler’s portrait, which appears on the cover stories German edition, published in Bamberg in 1491, suggests a sense of justice that the transformed life, by means of a special cruelty, judged by standards of the contemporary epoch, but typical time in which he lived, the image transposed on the screen we play a Dracula with a figure of cruelty that no one has to do with the spirit of justice. This image, fancy and terrifying, is the taste of tourists who went in search of sensational and, once arrived in Romania, Bran Castle and associated (which by appearance and location to emit an air of mystery) with the locations where the haunting imagery Dracula.

Bran Castle, one of the most valuable monuments of medieval architecture in Romania, officials historical, military and economic, is known by worldwide tourists as Dracula’s Castle.
Most tourists, after visiting Bran Castle, leaving disappointed that did not meet Dracula - The vampire who sucks the blood of men, known from movies and figure associated with Romanian Prince Vlad Tepes – Dracula. And not meet him because visitors do not distinguish between a historical reality and the origin story behind both the character of Bram Stoker’s novel, entitled Dracula, the action is based on popular beliefs about strigoi and vampires and legends about Vlad Tepes, especially those which show him as a cruel prince. Interference with the main character in the novel Dracula legends real Prince Vlad Tepes – Dracula, a reference figure of Roman history, spawned an imaginary character known as Dracula’s vampire as an embodiment of evil that violate human, ii struggles and those came under the domination of converts into the forces of evil. This character exists at the imaginary and can not be shown in a museum exhibition, as is that of Bran Castle.

Bran Castle Dracula’s castle was baptized three decades ago, by tourists, especially Americans, who came in search of Dracula in horror movies made after a novel by Bram Stoker. Tourists are surprised to enter a castle in Transylvania that the appearance resembled the castle described by Irish author. Therefore they named Castle Dracula. What about Dracula may be among the imagination of tourists come in search of vampire and Bran Castle? It’s simple. If it is the ruler of the Romanian Country, the history recorded many campaigns undertaken by Vlad – Impaler – Dracula Brasov who punish merchants Saxon prince disobeyed the commandments of the trade fairs of the Romanian Country. And it makes sense for the transition to be made on the Bran pass closest to Brasov, which connects with Târgovişte, Mr Highlander. Relations with the Bran castellans not being too friendly, because they were representatives of the city center, hostile Vlad Tepes.
If Vlad Tepes ruled Bran Castle is hard to answer because it recorded no written documents. But existing records in the archives of the Castle – Bran Castle, as many are still preserved, are primarily administrative in nature, is related to income and expenses on the area of the city Bran and very little at events for political-military. Arguably, however, that in autumn 1462 after the army of the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, caught near the city of Dambovita Bridge, near Rucar, situated about 25 km from Bran, Prince Vlad Tepes was taken to Castle Bran and imprisoned here for a couple of months, as the recent volume recorded Vlad Tepes Dracula, Editura Mirador, Arad, 2002, author George Lazea Postelnicu. From there he was taken and imprisoned in Visegrad Citadel.

In terms of vampire, known in Romanian folklore as the strigoi, (name of vampire is met in Serbian) is to mention that in the villages of Bran is preserved faith on the existence of evil spirits called strigoi (variant of strigoiului) .
Village elders remember that until half a century ago it was believed that there were some people in life – strigoi – who led a normal life day and at night sleeping in their souls left the band and haunting the village and tortured people in sleep. These evil spirits from haunted midnight until the roosters sang first, when no longer had the power to causing bad people.
Belief in strigoi and other evil spirits is a part of popular mythology. It can be told, imagined by every individual. But beyond this imaginary universe populated with vampires and ghosts, the tourist can meet at Bran a reality that will enjoy and relax the soul.
The fierce image of Dracula in thought, came to Bran, the tourist will meet in the beautiful places in this mountain area shepherds with herds to grazing or mowing the grass, whose women to war woven textiles that adorn the interiors of homes or preparing traditional dishes (Bulzul Shepherd, beat, beat milk, etc..) both in their household and in bed that is prepared for those who want to spend at Bran from sunrise until the sunset and you can even overnight, the dream will come and Dracula vampire whose strength will wither on the clove housewife sitting above the entry door so she knows that the old house that is defending the evil spirits.