The Castle of Bran "Between myth and reality"

Surrounded of one mystery will have and of legend, the castle of Bran owes its reputation A are charm single and with the myth creates by the Stoker writer around tell Dracula.
The castles of Bran formed part of a whole of citadels on the border.
In XVème century (1377) contemporary time of Louis 1er from Anjou king of Hungary.
This one was built on a rock with 60m height, a fitting exceptional, of the secret parts and the narrow corridors, in make a true labyrinth.
This castle was intended to be a strategic point, soldier and commercial.
In the court interior, there is a fountain of 57m of depth, undergrounds a baker's oven and a prison.
In 1920 the Marie queen, niece of the queen Victoria de Grande Brittany received this castle in gift of the town of Brasov. This one acted as residence of summer.
The legend says that the heart of the Marie queen kept in one limp of money and was discovered in a secret niche.

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The Merchant's Money

A merchant was traveling through Dracula's kingdom when he remembered about the supposed honesty in it. He had nowhere to stay and the night was falling so he decided to leave his cart full of coins in a public plaza and go to sleep elsewhere.

In the morning, the merchant found 160 coins missing from his cart. Very depressed about this, he informed Dracula about his loss and Dracula promptly told him to stay in his palace for the night. Dracula then ordered his guards to find the thief or else he would destroy his whole kingdom and impale everyone within it.

Dracula secretly sent the 160 coins to the merchant's cart plus another coin. The next day, when the merchant returned to his cart, he was very pleased to find the 160 coins. When he went to thank Vlad the Impaler, he mentioned the extra coin. Vlad told the merchant that the thief had been caught and was being impaled at the moment and that if the merchant hadn't mentioned about the extra coin, he would have been impaled too.