Romania is known as the former kingdom of Vlad the Impaler, whose brutal acts inspired the Dracula legend. The country has a breathtaking landscape of the Carpathian Mountains, with mysterious castles and monasteries. While Bran Castle is popularly associated with Dracula, historians note Vlad the Impaler likely never stayed there. Romania offers a scenic countryside and historic sites from its Roman and medieval past.

2. Romania Country-side of Dracula

3. Welcome to the place where I was born, Romania, the former kingdom of Vlad the Impaler (Dracula's real-life persona)! Direct descendants of Roman legionnaires who settled here more than 2000 years ago, Romanians will welcome you with bread, salt and wine. Mysterious castles and secluded monasteries are part of Romania's breathtaking Carpathian Mountains landscape.

4. Vlad is known in Romanian history as Vlad Tepes, that is, Vlad the Impaler, for his penchant for impaling invaders, criminals, and personal enemies alike. Although some of his victims appear to have been German colonists who built Bran Castle at the end of the 14th century, historians have cautioned that there is little or no connection at all between Vlad the Impaler and Bran Castle.

6. WELCOME IN ROMANIA

7. Carpathian Mountains

8. Bran Castle, Transylvania

9. Popularly known as "Dracula's Castle," Bran Castle is spectacularly situated in the Transylvania. Vlad Tepes (the Impaler), brutal inspiration for the Dracula legend, probably never stayed here. Vlad the Impaler

10. Dacians are a branch of Thracians that inhabitanted Dacia (corresponding to modern Romania and Moldova) and parts of Moesia (mostly in northern Bulgaria in southeastern Europe). The Dacian kingdom reached its maximum expansion during King Burebista . The region came under the scrutiny of Rome when the Roman province, bordering along the Danube, Moesia, was attacked by the Dacians in 87 AD during Emperor Domitian's reign. The Dacians were eventually defeated by the Roman Empire under Emperor Trajan in two campaigns stretching from 101 AD to 106 AD and the core of their kingdom was turned into the Roman province of Dacia. .

11. Sucevitza Church and Monastery, Bukovina

12. Voronetz Monastery, Bukovina

13. The Peles Castle, Sinaia

14. Sibiu – Statue of Gheorghe Lazar

15. The Museum of Arts and History, Iasi

16. The Athenaeum, Bucharest

17. Arcul de triumf - Bucharest

18. White Night of Bucharest Festival

19. University Square, Bucharest with the statue of Mihai Viteazu in the foreground

20. National Theatre "I. L. Caragiale", Bucharest

21. Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest

22. Timisoara - Opera

23. Danube Delta

25. In the Danube Delta

26. Danube Delta Swan

27. Râpa Roşie

28. Cheile-Aiudului

29. Râpa Roşie

31. Merry Cemetery Săpânţa , Maramu reş

32. Merry Cemetery Săpânţa , Maramu reş

33. ALBA IULIA

34. POIANA BRASOV

35. Lake Colibita

36. landscape

37. Carpathian Mountains - landscape

38. Buucegi Mountains Lake Bolboci

39. Carpathian Mountains – Transfagarasan, lake Balea

40. Carpathian Mountains - Apuseni

41. Carpathian Mountains - Brasov

42. Carpathian Mountains - Sphinx in Bucegi

43. Lake Bucura- Retezat Mountains

44. Mamaia - Black Sea

45. Constanta - Cazino

46. LA REVEDERE!