For Sale: Castle Dracula

By awelshview in Home & Garden on Jan 10, 2007 at 6:02 pm

Dracula's Castle

Bran Castle, or Castle Dracula and the possible home of Vlad the Impaler – the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula – is up for sale. For £40 million ($78 million) this 57-room medieval castle built in 1377 could be yours. The Romanian government has first refusal but if it decides not to purchase it, it could end up in private hands.

If bought by a private buyer, the castle would need to remain as a state-run museum for the next few years but could then be turned into a private residence if required, although I don’t know who would be crazy enough to live with the ghost of Vlad the Impaler. Link – via Cynical-C


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  1. Miss Cellania
    Jan 10th, 2007 at 6:39 pm

    To live there would be SO cool -til the first heating bill arrived!

  2. Myra
    Jan 10th, 2007 at 6:49 pm

    78 mill….”Daddy, can you co-sign a 78 millon dollar loan for me”.

  3. quinnn
    Jan 10th, 2007 at 7:41 pm

    I think my husband just wet himself :)

  4. dead_red_eyes
    Jan 10th, 2007 at 8:25 pm

    It’s a very beautiful castle …

  5. Magnor
    Jan 10th, 2007 at 10:36 pm

    This is one of the main reasons why i want to be stinking rich. /sigh

  6. Denita TwoDragons
    Jan 11th, 2007 at 1:50 am

    I would have a room for my studio, turn the dungeon into a giant theater / D&D game room / pool hall…and then fill one of the tower rooms full of theremins and a cadre of speakers playing wolf howls at night…just for driving the neighbors nuts with. ;-)

    And if you’re stinking rich, you can bloody well afford the heating bill! *GRIN* Otherwise, you can follow in the footsteps of the previous owner, and just burn the peasants for warmth…

    –TwoDragons

  7. Lasse
    Jan 11th, 2007 at 6:14 am

    perfect for a secret prison for the CIA.

  8. captainluton
    Jan 11th, 2007 at 2:06 pm

    Apparently (according to most historical info the subject) this was never Vlad’s castle, although he may have once attacked it.
    His actual castle, which you can reach via a hydro-electricity station, is falling to bits on the side of a cliff.
    Still a wicked castle though!


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