Who taught us fear? Winter at Bran Castle feels less like a season and more like a verdict. Snow seals the battlements, silence thickens in the stairwells, and Transylvania stands indifferent, almost amused. Romania does not stage its darkness for visitors. It simply leaves it unedited, a raw cut of history where cold becomes narrator and stone keeps the receipts. The lore here is dense and unromantic. Vlad the Impaler was not a ghost but a ruler sharpened by captivity in the Ottoman court and b

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