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Price trip/person: 180 EUR
	Included services: bus transportation for itinerary; guide; entraces for museums accommodation H ****, 2 nights Herculane accommodation H ***, 1 night Craiova half board Minim group: 20 persons   Other prices: 175 Euro/person (group of min 30 persons) 165 Euro/person (group of min 40 persons)

About Caves of Vlad Dracula

Vlad II (c. 1390 – December 1447), known as Vlad Dracul ("Vlad the Dragon"), was a voivode (duke) of Wallachia. He reigned from 1436 to 1442, and again from 1443 to 1447. He was the father of Mircea II, Vlad Calugarul, Vlad the Impaler (Dracula), and Radu the Handsome. Mircea II and Vlad Tepes were by the same mother, and Radu the Handsome and Vlad Calugarul by another wife. All four of his sons at one time or the other would rule Wallachia. Vlad Tepes would go on to become one of the most notorious rulers in history.

Vlad II Dracul was a member of the princely House of Basarab, and son of Mircea cel Batrân. Although Vlad II was in favor of Catholicism, he is known to have murdered members of the rival princely House of Danesti, a not-so-distant relation to his own father's House of Basarab, and gained power in Wallachia, upon returning from exile in Transylvania in 1436.

Vlad II received the surname Dracul in 1431, after being inducted into the Order of the Dragon founded by Sigismund, the Holy Roman Emperor, as part of a design to gain political favor for the Catholic Church and to aid in protecting Wallachia against the Ottoman Empire. The Order itself had been founded by Sigismund while still only King of Hungary in 1408.

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