Castle Dracula is located in modern-day Romania in Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. Stoker places the fictional castle in Transylvania, a historical region that is now largely within Romania.
The castle is described as a remote, ruined stronghold reached by Jonathan Harker after travelling through the Carpathian Mountains. Its exact real-world position is deliberately vague, with the novel emphasizing snow, wolves, mountain passes, and supernatural blue flames rather than a precise map location.
Readers often confuse the fictional castle with Bran Castle near Brașov, which is marketed as “Dracula’s Castle.” Bran Castle is in Romania, but it is not named in Stoker’s novel, and there is no firm evidence that Stoker used it as the model. The novel’s castle is fictional, even though its Romanian setting helped shape Dracula’s enduring association with the country.