Dracula in a 1931 film adaptation
The disturbing Count Dracula is the protagonist of the eponymous Gothic novel by Bram Stoker , published in 1897, therefore he is a literary character , moreover of great luck (who does not know him?).
However, the writer, to outline the physical and character characteristics of his creature, was strongly inspired by a real ruler, the infamous Vladislav III of Wallachia (1431-1477), a man so cruel that he went down in history as "the Impaler" , a name derived from the terrifying habit of making his enemies impale.
And what about the famous Dracula's Castle , a sinister but charming manor located in Romania between the regions of Transylvania and of Wallachia ?
In reality it stimulated Broker's imagination, but it never had anything to do with Vlad III, who instead, as his residence, chose the thirteenth-century fortress of Poenari, also Romanian, an old ruin that he restored to its ancient splendor.
In 1992 , in cinemas, the film was released Bram Stoker's Dracula , a success produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola ( to find out more click here:https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_di_Bram_Stoker). .
The Romanian castle that inspired Bram Stoker for his novel, called for this "Dracula's Castle"