Dracula's real castle
Soon after coming to power Vlad began his reign of terror. He invited many of
the noblemen and their families to a huge feast.
Confronting them as traitors and conspirators in the death of his
father and brother, he captured and impaled most of them. The younger and
healthier ones were marched north from Tirgoviste to the ruins of his castle in
the mountains above the arges river, where they were forced to labor for months
rebuilding the old castle. According to the reports, they labored until the
clothes fell off their bodies, with few surviving the ordeal.
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