Romania Road Ways. I. Two on the Loose. Dan with down travels anywhere.

Two people headed out, an improvised road trip. May open travel return. See Snagov, Complex Astoria, Sinaia, Brasov, Bran, Rasnov, Curtea de Arges, Poinari, Transfagarasan Pass, Sibiu, Sighisoara, Targu Mures, Bistrita, Bucovina, Voronet, Putna, Prislop Pass, Sighetu Marmetei, Iasi, Sapanta, Cluj Napoca, Alba Iulia, Baia Mare, Hunedoara, Petrogani, Targu Jiu, Horezu, Calimanisti, Rimnicu Vicea, Targoviste, Mogosoaia, Bucharest. Vlad sites: at Romania Roadways II;. trips hub europeroadways .com.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Transfagarasan Pass, Carpathian Alps, Poienari Citadel

Transfagarasan Pass, Poinari Citadel

A main historian-tourist objective is seeing what corroborates events in the life of Vlad III Tepes. Poinari Citadel is the mountaintop (a manageable walk with mild switchbacks up from the road) castle where, it is said, the Turks were threatening, and Vlad's wife so feared being taken that she hurled herself off the parapet to her death.

Dan Widing at Poinari Citadel, Vlad Dracula's castle ruin, Transfagarasan Pass, Carpathian Alps, Romania

Poienari Citadel. Vlad escaped from Poinari Citadel, and went to another castle at Targoviste. See http://www.davidstuff.com/historical/vlad.htm; and the more tourist-oriented version for the story at http://www.romaniatourism.com/dracula-legend.html/

This fortress was built in the 1300's and became the main defense point for the Basarab rulers. See http://www.exploringromania.com/poienari.html

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