VISIT THE RUINS OF VLAD THE IMPALER OR DRACULA OLD COURT

When he grew up, Vlad the Impaler became one of the greatest and cruelest rulers in Romania country. It happened between 1448 and 1476. It was the time when he became a legend. He killed landlords and Turkish soldiers in terrible methods. Then he became a character in movies, books and so on. We entered the room where they say he saw the daylight.

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Dracula died on the 14th of December 1476, beheaded. The room where he was born is still available for visiting in Sighisoara, yet it is a little kitsch style. Anyway, the fortress is a museum which is worth to visit. Sighisoara is about 7 hours from Bucharest by train.

DRACULA ROOM

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Vlad the Impaler was the son of Vlad the Devil. His name came from the fact that he was member of the European Dragon Fellowship.

OLD COURT IN BUHCAREST OR THE GREAT FORTRESS

In the beginning Old Court of Bucharest was a medieval castle. It had 160 square meters. Vlad Dracula fortified it from 1456 to 1462. This is what tourists will see after the restoration works are over. Yet, some old artifacts are at the ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM, too.

The new fortress was 25.000 square meters and it had great cellars. A church was also built, OLD COURT CHURCH. Here foreign princes came to important meetings.

CIVILIZATIONS CLASH IN THE MIDDLE OF BUCHAREST AT THE OLD COURT

They said it was the landlord palace, not too big but not too small either, with two towers guarding it and with a great hall with Turkish tapestry. In 1595 the Turks had to retire from the old city of Bucharest and almost demolished the site. A few years later, Gabriel Bathory, a Hungarian prince also came and had to leave and destroyed part of the building too. In 1640, the great Romanian Lord, Matei Basarab found the city in ruin and built a new one, a great one, inspired by Western courts.

Thus, the Old Court in Bucharest has become the office of the Romanian princes, especially when, in 1659 the Royal Court in Targoviste was demolished and is a great attraction for tourists who are in UNIRII SQUARE BUCHAREST, for it is not far away from the center of the capital and nearby you can have lunch at Manuc’s Inn or a City Grill Old Town Bucharest where we last ate a drank something this September( 2019) and we wrote about the experience HERE.

THE END OF THE OLD COURT BUCHAREST AND THE RUINS

Lord Constantin Brancoveanu who will have a cruel fate, being killed by the Turks, after seeing his sons slaughtered too, and Stefan Cantacuzino made the Royal Court or the Old Court of Bucharest a great palace, as a sign of the Romanian political power. In 1716 Austrian army march through the capital and rob the The Old Court. The great fire in 1718, the earthquake in 1738, the war in 1768 and 1774 between Russia and Turkey almost destroyed the Old Court.
It will become the house of poor people, homeless until 1802 when a new earthquake put down part of the walls. A fire in 1804 demolished again almost everything. Today can be visited the underground of the Old Court where Lord Dracula ruled hundred of years ago and his statue can be seen in front of the complex of the Old Court in Bucharest. There is a legend about the tunnels that Vlad The Implaler, or Lord Dracula built during his reign. There are no official evidence, of course. Yet, legends say there is at least one tunnel to go under YOUTH PARK OF BUCHAREST to the Crematory built there more than one hundred year after.