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Dracula castle in Transylvania may fetch €60 mln

Dracula’s castle may sell for €60 million ($78 million) after the local government offered to buy the Transylvanian fortress to boost tourism revenue.

Brasov County Council in central Romania is in talks with a foreign bank on a 10-year loan for that amount to get back the castle from its current owners living abroad, Aristotel Cancescu, president of the municipality, said in a telephone interview. „We want to get involved in getting back the castle and running it because it would be a very good opportunity to further develop tourism,” Cancescu said today. Any purchase must be formally approved by all of the council’s members, he said. Built in 1212 by Teutonic knights, the castle was briefly used two centuries later by Romanian ruler Vlad the Impaler, who inspired Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula legend. Also known as Bran Castle, the fortress was returned to the inheritors of Romanian Princess Ileana by the authorities in May as the government returned assets seized during communism.

source: http://www.nowpublic.com/dracula_castle_in_transylvania_may_fetch_60_mln

The name Dracula still sends a shiver down my spine. Imagine tourists walking down the very castle where he lived! Scary thought :(