{"id":439,"date":"2009-12-31T15:34:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T13:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raduoprea.eu\/en\/?p=439"},"modified":"2021-11-17T18:56:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T16:56:53","slug":"a-day-in-bran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raduoprea.eu\/en\/archives\/439","title":{"rendered":"A Day in Bran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bran Castle and Bran Customs Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am spending the New Year in Bran, my most favorite resort in Romania. Together with some close friends of mine, have decided to learn some new things about this fascinating place that gave birth to the legend of Dracula and that is very rich\u00a0in history. The first interesting place that we discovered was a small cript that once hosted the heart of Queen Mary of Romania. She was so in love with Bran, that she wanted to leave her heart here.<\/p>\n

Bran Castle overlooks the road of Bran, which was considered to be the most important merchant road that linked Transylvania to Wallachia, two of the three principalities of Romania. On this road, linked to the most important European\u00a0mercantile roads, intense commerce took place between the Orient and\u00a0Western Europe. When passing through the Bran Valley, the merchants had to pay a customs duty called “tricesima,” equal to 3.3 percent of the value of their merchandise.<\/p>\n

Photo Gallery<\/strong>: Bran Castle, Bran Customs Museum, the cript where the heart of Queen Mary of Romania was deposited in 1940.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \t

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